The NAIC/CIPR Research Library has compiled a summary of recent academic articles, news coverage, and state communications about the limitations of business interruption insurance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Government, legal, and state/industry responses are also included.

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The NAIC Research Fellow Program is designed to foster new and innovative research in the area of insurance regulation by providing resources to researchers working on projects in this field.

CIPR partnered with The Insurance Library to compile a timeline of historical events and regulatory actions relating to discrimination in the insurance industry. Read the full report here.

CIPR Research Study on Rising Health Care Costs: Drivers, Challenges, and Solutions

This CIPR report investigates the impact of COVID-19 on the health insurance ACA marketplace enrollment by providing a comparison between the estimates from three main studies and the latest available actual marketplace enrollment data for twelve state-based marketplaces.

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Pandemic Special Enrollment Periods: Insights from WSB Survey of Insurance Experts

NAIC’s independent research division, the Center for Insurance Policy and Research partnered with the Wisconsin School of Business (WSB) Insurance Experts Panel to find out the extent to which insurance experts agree or disagree on recent major public policy issues related to opening special enrollment periods.  The more than 50 insurance experts on the WSB Insurance Experts Panel provided their insights.  The findings in this report do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the NAIC or its commissioners.

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The NAIC CIPR Research Library team recently wrote a report addressing disease and related outbreaks from our research findings in the historical NAIC Proceedings.  Included is a table with 26 references from the Proceedings that we used to summarize the report.

Historical Context of NAIC Conversations Surrounding Disease Outbreaks:  A retrospective from the NAIC Proceedings 

NAIC’s independent research division, the Center for Insurance Policy and Research partnered with the Wisconsin School of Business (WSB) Insurance Experts Panel to find out the extent to which insurance experts agree or disagree on recent major public policy issues related to BI coverage.  The more than 50 insurance experts on the WSB Insurance Experts Panel provided their insights.  The findings in this report do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the NAIC or its commissioners.

CIPR has compiled information and resources on pandemics:

Summary: The Risk of Pandemics to the Insurance Industry: Lessons Learned from 2015 CIPR Symposium Applicable to COVID-19  (April 2020)