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National Association of Insurance Commissioners Releases Volume I of its Annual Insurance Department Resources Report

Author: Nancy Germond

This article contains information about states' departments of insurance for 2021.

Volume I is divided into five sections as follows.

  1. Staffing
  2. Budget and funding
  3. Examination and oversight
  4. Insurance producers
  5. Consumer services and antifraud

Here are a few interesting statistics from Volume I.

  • Overall, full-time staffing remained stable, with 22 departments boosting staff and 19 decreasing staff levels.
  • The biggest departments are California, Texas, Florida, New York and North Carolina.
  • Budget levels for 2023 are projected to rise by 9.1% from 2022.
  • Revenues collected from the insurance industry were up 2.7% from 202 to $29.8 billion in 2021.
  • U.S. domestic insurers decreased by from 5,929 in 2020 to 4,978 in 2021. Captive numbers will be released in Volume II.
  • There were 197 liquidations of insurers in progress and 35 rehabilitations.
  • Licensed resident producers were at 2.4 million and 244,641 entities.
  • There were 19,521 producer fines levied; 1,291 restitutions levied against producers; and 1,948 license revocations.
  • There were 259,345 official complaints with 1.5 million inquiries.
  • States with criminal fraud investigation units number 42.

Volume I of the report is available in full at this link.

https://content.naic.org/sites/default/files/publication-sta-bb-volume-one.pdf

​Last Updated: February 17, 2023

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