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House Business Committee introduces measure to refine Life and Health Insurance Guarantee Association coverage
Summary
The House Business Committee voted Jan. 21 to introduce RS 31911, a draft bill that would adjust Idaho’s Life and Health Insurance Guarantee Association law to exclude factoring companies from coverage, clarify rate corrections for failed insurers, add some ACA-created co-ops as eligible members, and let the association board set member assessments.
Representative Jeff Ehlers (R., District 21, Meridian) presented RS 31911 to the House Business Committee on Jan. 21, 2025, asking the committee to introduce the draft bill to the 2025 session. RS 31911 would amend Idaho’s Life and Health Insurance Guarantee Association framework to narrow who the association protects and to clarify certain technical provisions.
Ehlers told the committee the guarantee association, created in the 1970s, functions like the FDIC for life and health insurance: it helps ensure policyholders are protected if an insurer becomes insolvent. The draft would explicitly exclude “factoring…
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