(PDF) Commissioner’s Memorandum 2025-17C Subject: Domestic Risk Retention Captive Insurance Companies 2025 Annual and Other Filing Requirements (Due in 2026) (PDF) Commissioner’s Memorandum 2025-16C Subject: Captive Insurance Company 2025 Annual Filing Requirements (Due in 2026) (PDF) Commissioner’s Memorandum 2025-15C Subject: OPTins Instructions for All Hawaii Authorized Captive Insurers (PDF) Commissioner’s Memorandum 2025-14A Subject: Updated Flood Insurance Rate Maps (PDF) Commissioner’s ...
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With hurricane season just starting, the public is urged to be prepared. Besides packing a go-bag and making an emergency plan, you should also review your insurance policies. Homeowners must have a separate hurricane insurance policy to be protected. KHON2’s Sam Spangler interviewed Acting Insurance Commissioner Jerry Bump on May 30, 2025 for hurricane insurance ...
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Hawaii residents, like many across the country, face a home insurance crisis as the insurance industry grapples with the cost of multiple natural disasters like the wildfires on Maui in 2023 and in Los Angeles earlier this year, as well as hurricanes and flooding across the American southeast last year. State lawmakers are working on ...
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This white paper, submitted to Governor Green, Senate President Kouchi and House Speaker Nakamura, presents the Executive and Legislative Condo and Property Insurance Task Force’s analysis of the challenges facing Hawaii’s insurance market and explores options for the State to attempt to mitigate those challenges.
Pursuant to Act 138, the Insurance Commissioner, through the State of Hawaii’s Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs’ Insurance Division (“HID”), requests that all motor vehicle insurers submit rate filings to reflect the amendments made to HRS § 431:10C-301(b)(1), and (2) by Act 138 § 3.
The Insurance Commissioner (“Commissioner”) is requiring all insurers in the residential hurricane market who currently write, or who wrote at any time within the last fifteen years (i.e. since 2008), to complete the data call worksheet provided by the Insurance Division.
(PDF) Commissioner’s Memorandum 2024-2R Subject: Rate Filings Pursuant to 2024 Haw. Sess. Laws Act 138 (PDF) Commissioner’s Memorandum 2024-1R Subject: Hurricane Insurance Data Call Worksheet (EXCEL) Hurricane Insurance Data Call Worksheet
Pursuant to Hawaii Revised Statutes (“HRS”) § 431:9-201(b), Insurance Commissioner Gordon I. Ito (“Commissioner”) issues this declaration authorizing the temporary assistance of nonresident independent adjusters so continued support may be available for the communities and its residents in the aftermath of the devastating August 8, 2023, Maui Island wildfires. The Commissioner previously issued the Declaration ...
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS KA ʻOIHANA PILI KĀLEPA JOSH GREEN, M.D. GOVERNOR | KE KIAʻĀINA NADINE Y. ANDO DIRECTOR | KA LUNA HOʻOKELE GORDON I. ITO INSURANCE COMMISSIONER 2024 Health Insurance Marketplace Open Enrollment Has Begun FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 9, 2023 HONOLULU — The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs Insurance Division ...
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