States Need Insurance Policyholder Advocacy Agencies: Advocate

September 2, 2020 by Allison Bell

A longtime insurance consumer advocate has a proposal for fighting racism in insurance: Give every state a permanent, securely funded agency that can represent consumers in all kinds of disputes involving insurance.

Birny Birnbaum, director of the Center for Economic Justice, included the “Bureau for the Consumer Advocate” (BICA) provision in a proposal for developing “a new model law to address systemic racism in insurance.”

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Originally Posted at ThinkAdvisor on August 27, 2020 by Allison Bell.