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Policymaker Perspectives: Balancing Innovation and Protection

As artificial intelligence transforms the insurance landscape and climate-related disasters grow in frequency, regulators are faced with the delicate task of encouraging innovative without compromising consumer protection. In the latest episode of Predict and Prevent, risk management challenges and opportunities of the day are examined through the perspective of a regulatory leader.

Guest host Frank Paul Tomasello, executive director of The Institutes Griffith Insurance Education Foundation, sits down with Scott A. White—commissioner of the Virginia State Corporation Commission’s Bureau of Insurance and president-elect of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). Together, they discuss how regulators are balancing forward-thinking innovation with the implementation of critical safeguards.

Predict & Prevent is a podcast from The Institutes that highlights proactive strategies to address today’s most urgent risk challenges—focusing on how we can better predict and prevent losses before they happen.

ON-DEMAND DISCUSSIONS

2025 Financial Regulators Program: Presenters’ Perspectives

In this series of conversations, presenters from the annual Financial Regulators Program (a multi-day event, which takes place on the campus of the Katie School of Insurance at Illinois State University) visit with us to share insight and expertise on topics of relevance to financial regulators of insurance.

These short-duration video segments offer a glimpse into the material that these thought-leaders covered during the multi-day, in-person event. That event and these video segments are a collaborative effort of IREF, the Katie School of Insurance at Illinois State University and The Institutes Griffith Foundation.

ON-DEMAND DISCUSSION

Insurance Insights - Lars Powell

A recently released study by the University of Alabama’s Center for Risk and Insurance Research, speaks to the efficacy of innovative approaches to resilience. In the most recent edition of Insurance Insights, Dr. Lars Powell of the University of Alabama visits with Frank Paul Tomasello of The Institutes Griffith Foundation to discuss the results of the study, commissioned by the Alabama Department of Insurance.

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    Jon Godfread, North Dakota Insurance Commissioner and NAIC President 2025

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