Greetings from Austin, TX and the TDI Compliance Conference
It is hot here in Austin for a NY girl! We are about half-way through and the Texas Department of Insurance Life, Health & Licensing Compliance Conference has been a good one so far, and well worth the trip. This morning I attended a session on Advertising Requirements and there was a very good discussion of new regulations and what some of those changes will mean in practice. I found the website discussion particularly helpful because it can be difficult to take regulations drafted for paper ads to the electronic medium. In addition, it that advertising session, I got to go back to my roots in a new and sure-to-be-a-hit "game show": "Think like a Regulator!"
The TDI has a lot of staff here and that is very nice to see --they have been very responsive and willing to answer any and all questions posed to them. The sessions on various product and filing issues have also been very informative and I will head back to the office (and the cooler temperatures!) with some good tips to help TX filings go more smoothly. The conference concludes tomorrow with a panel discussion and the opportunity to submit questions to the regulators who are here, so if any of you have a question that you would like to have asked, drop me an e-mail and I'd be happy to do my best to get an answer for you!
