IIPRC Consumer Advocate Resigns

Bonnie Burns has given up her position on the consumer advisory committee of the new Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Commission.

Burns, a training and policy specialist with California Health Advocates, Scotts Valley, Calif., writes in her resignation letter that the views of consumer advocates “have generally not been well received” by IIPRC members.

“Some meetings have not been open to public participation and decisions made in those meetings are later voted on during conference calls without much discussion, or adequate time for review and comment,” Burns writes.

Burns says she has a “long record of supporting state-based regulation and opposing federal regulation when it could deprive consumers of their rights or effective regulatory oversight.”