South Carolina Director of Insurance to Speak at Legal Seminar

Ernst N. Csiszar, Director of South Carolina's Department of Insurance and NAIC Vice President, will speak at NOLHGA's 12th Annual Legal Seminar, which will be held August 21-22, 2003, at The Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Director Csiszar, who has headed the South Carolina department since 1999, chairs the NAIC's International Insurance Relations Committee and serves as an NAIC representative to the International Association of Insurance Supervisors. He is scheduled to participate in a Legal Seminar panel discussion dealing with increased globalization in the life and health industry and the potential solvency implications for United States domestic companies. For more information about the seminar, please contact Aimee Frye (703.787.4115; [email protected]) or Meg Melusen (703.787.4130; [email protected]).

MPC Health Issues Subgroup Requests GA Input on TPAs

A letter from Peter Leonard, chair of an MPC subgroup considering some of the challenges posed within the 2001 Health Insurance Issues Committee report, was sent on April 1, 2003, to guaranty association administrators requesting the completion of a questionnaire relating to health insurance policy specialists. Completed questionnaires should be returned to Holly Wilding via fax (703.481.5209) or e-mail ([email protected]). If you need another copy of the communication and questionnaire, please contact Holly at 703.787.4111.

State GA Web Site Guides Distributed to GAs

In the next few days, a guide with instructions on how to supply Web site content for a customized guaranty association Web site will be e-mailed to all associations participating in the State GA Web Site Development project. The guide includes sample content along with suggestions concerning various documents and other types of content that associations may want to include on their sites, which were designed by the State GA Web Site Development Committee and will be hosted by NOLHGA. Once an association submits its content, the content will be added to the site template and the administrator will receive an e-mail with a link to the site so that he or she can approve the final version before it is posted to the Internet.

The guides should be distributed to all participating associations by April 14; if your association has not received its guide by then, please contact Sean McKenna at 703.787.4106 or [email protected]. If your association is interested in having its own Web site and you have not yet contacted the committee or NOLHGA, please contact Committee Chair Mark Femal ([email protected]) or Sean McKenna.