The American Council of Life Insurers fears that the National Association of Insurance Commissioners is tightening its grip on an insurance producer fingerprint database project.[@@]
The NAIC, Kansas City, Mo., has been working with insurers to develop the National Insurance Producer Registry.
Insurers now believe the joint effort is becoming an effort "to reduce NIPR to an operating subsidiary of the NAIC," Michael Lovendusky, a representative for the ACLI, Washington, said during an industry liaison meeting with regulators.