Committee backs state-regulated risk-pool framework to help providers obtain liability coverage

Mar 4, 2026

After a Department of Insurance briefing, the committee adopted an amendment to create a DOI-supervised framework for risk-retention/captive-like arrangements allowing certain nonprofits and provider groups to pool liability risks when the commercial market is constrained. The amendment sets solvency, governance, reporting and DOI oversight requirements.

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The committee adopted an amendment to Senate Bill 612 that establishes a regulated pathway for entities (for example, nonprofit child-care providers, foster-placement agencies, behavioral health services and certain for-profit child care) to form state-supervised risk-pooling arrangements intended to improve access to liability coverage in a hard commercial market.

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