The Nationwide Affiliation of Insurance coverage Commissioners has named Gary Anderson to be its new chief govt officer.

Anderson will take over as CEO Might 1, after his time period as Massachusetts’ insurance coverage commissioner ends, NAIC officers introduced Saturday in Phoenix, on the group’s spring nationwide assembly.

What it means: Anderson can have a key seat on the desk when insurers, monetary providers teams and state insurance coverage regulators are wrestling with the U.S. Division of Labor, the U.S. Securities and Alternate Fee and Congress over the requirements that ought to apply to gross sales of annuities and different monetary providers merchandise.

The NAIC: Federal regulation leaves regulation of the enterprise of insurance coverage to the states.

The NAIC is a Kansas Metropolis, Missouri-based group that helps state insurance coverage regulators coordinate their actions and work with the federal authorities.

It has about 520 staff and reported producing $151 million in income on $192 million in belongings in 2023, in line with its new annual report.

Andrew Mais, the Connecticut insurance coverage commissioner, will proceed to be the group’s president.

The NAIC is concerned in lots of legislative efforts in Washington, starting from Medicare plan advertising requirements to concepts for holding down the price of private property insurance coverage.

The NAIC has additionally developed and up to date many units of annuity gross sales requirements through the years. In the present day, the NAIC is selling an annuity suitability mannequin replace it developed to enhance the SEC’s Regulation Greatest Curiosity to function a possible various to the efforts by the Labor Division to impose a fiduciary normal on people and firms that assist retirement savers roll belongings from 401(okay) plans or particular person retirement preparations into nonvariable annuities.