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DFR explains insurance changes in H.137; committee moves to streamline Medicare-supplement rate review
Summary
Department of Financial Regulation Deputy Commissioner Emily Brown summarized insurance provisions in H.137, covering confidentiality cleanups, an explicit nondiscrimination rule for affordable housing, a genetic‑privacy study and changes to Medicare‑supplement rate review that emphasize timely posting, notice and filing deadlines.
Department of Financial Regulation Deputy Commissioner Emily Brown summarized the insurance portions of H.137 for the Senate Finance Committee, saying the package includes cleanup provisions and substantive changes to filing and rate-review procedures for several insurance products.
Brown described two cleanup items early in the bill: expanded confidentiality protections to cover entities DFR supervises under multiple titles and a corrected cross‑reference where a prior provision was repealed. “The first one is a change that brings in all of the entities that DFR regulates,” Brown said, noting that the cleanup covers entities regulated under Titles 8, 9 and 18.
Affordable‑housing nondiscrimination Brown described…
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