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The NAIC’s New Model Regulation Governing Suitability in Annuity Transactions Misleads and Fails to Protect Consumers

In the Spring of 2020, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) adopted a new “model regulation” that purports to protect consumers by toughening the standards that must be followed by agents and insurers selling annuities to consumers.[1]  The new model regulation, called the Suitability in Annuity Transactions Model Regulation (No. 275), was met with…

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