2022-9-16 Meeting Agenda

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Last updated: Sept 17, 2022

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This is a weekly series for The Regulatory Reporting Data Model Working Group. The RRDMWG is a collaborative group of insurers, regulators and other insurance industry innovators dedicated to the development of data models that will support regulatory reporting through an openIDL node. The data models to be developed will reflect a greater synchronization of data for insurer statistical and financial data and a consistent methodology that insurers and regulators can leverage to modernize the data reporting environment. The models developed will be reported to the Regulatory Reporting Steering Committee for approval for publication as an open-source data model.

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Attendees

Libby Crews

Peter Antley 

Nathan Southern

Tahoe Blue  

Chudwick, Susan R 

James Madison 

Bourjali Hi

Reggie Scarpa

Ash Naik 

George Bradner

Dale Harris 

Mike Nurse

Jenny Tornquist

Brian Hoffman


A. Intro by Mr. Antley

  1. Greetings
  2. LF Anti Trust Statement

B. Agenda

  1. Reconciliation - Ms. Chudwick
    1. Reconciling reporting to financials on a state/company/by line basis. Avail usually by end of March, but don't go out to stat agents til May/June usually. Takes time given volume. Question: what does/not have to be done. 
    2. Lots of ways to build to become more timely, and many checks and balances. We don't want to wait to reconcile before we report
    3. Her team builds into a big access spreadsheet. Smaller insurers do reconciliation & pose questions where differences exist. Larger companies do spreadsheet as well. 
    4. When we talk about when financials become available - re: AAIS - this is when they receive info from NAIC (Antley). For data: Ms. Chudwick clarified that they submit monthly, usually before they have reconciliatory information. It is official because it is their books and records. NAIC has it by state by company or by line by company but not all three on a quarter (which is what one needs)
    5. Ms. Tornquist: Question - does it happen at company level or the level of the group? Ms. Chudwick: they reconcile at group level. Mr. Nurse: clarified that @ The Hartford they reconcile at state level and company level (both). One for NAIC and one for stat agents. Done quarterly but at a company level.
  2. Mr. Antley asked Mr. Nurse to clarify his process at the Hartford
    1. When they book premiums/losses, they break out by individual companies (for every NAIC code). Take info from financial system, and balance statutory to financials on a monthly basis. If there is an out of balance, they have an explanation
    2. Reconciliation happens both end of quarter and end of year. 
  3. Discussion of column formats on spreadsheets
    1. Mr. Nurse offered to share documentation
    2. Said Kevin Petruzielo designed this spreadsheet
    3. Mr. Antley asked Ms. Chudwick for a sanitized version of reconciliation document from Travelers with 'dummy data.' Just wants to look at columns. Can we come up with standard excel file with line of business, states, etc. 
    4. Mr. Chudwick: we already have this from Travelers from 2020. 
    5. Mr. Hoffman: clarified why openIDL would need this. Mr. Antley confirmed that if he receives such a document, he's not able to share with anyone. 
    6. Ms. Chudwick: this request is difficult (maybe impossible) given the limitations of proprietary information from Travelers, and the differences in requirements/exclusions from carrier to carrier
    7. Mr. Antley: he's trying to figure out how to reconcile your stat report if I can't see your raw data. If a carrier has a group of records to repr. auto and NAIC numbers, there will be differences. He would like a way to record detailed exceptions to account for differences. Mr. Nurse pointed out that this could potentially be very problematic. Mr. Hoffman agreed.  
    8. Mr. Antley: goal - seeking formula that asks does reconciliation + adjustments = NAIC?
    9. Mr. Hoffman expressed discomfort with this idea/plan. Uncertain about this strategy.
    10. Mr. Harris: better to get certification from a traveler that reconciliation has occurred. 
    11. Mr. Antley: if in the HDS we had raw records as one table, and then an adjustment table, we could sum records and adjustments and make sure it equals NAIC #s.
    12. Mr. Harris: doesn't believe we can automate this. Doesn't believe it's necessary if within specified tolerance limits. Several others agreed
    13. Mr. Madison: asked how costly/time consuming non-idl reconciliation is on its own. Is it even worth going too far down this path?
    14. Mr. Antley: it is labor intensive and time consuming, yes. 
    15. Ms. Chudwick: this is done on an individual company basis. Not done in aggregation. 
    16. Mr. Madison: with all of security measures, does it make sense to put this material in the Harmonized Data Store? Would people be comfortable putting that level of table out there.
    17. Mr. Harris: but we won't know if it's been accepted by AAIS. Those are 1:1 conversations that need to happen with AAIS. 
  4. Mr. Madison asked what requirements this would entail on an architectural level - does table just stay in HDS forever or is it put back again and again?
  5. Mr. Antley - presented two options moving forward
    1. We continue down the road we're on re: 1:1 carrier conversations with AAIS, human interaction
    2. Tables put in Harmonized Data Store and we develop automated algorithms to do reconciliations, between stat data and NAIC data
  6. Ms. Chudwick: doesn't believe it will take that much time. 
  7. Mr. Madison proposed that we put reconciliation on hold for now and reserve it for 'Day 2,' when rest of system is established. 
  8. Clarification: data load level of granularity.

C. Recap

  1. Reconciliation will be done as it is now, with 1:1 interpersonal relationship with AAIS and crude checksums
  2. Will not be automated for the time being. 

D. Looking ahead - Mr. Antley mentioned that the 9/30 meeting and 10/7 may be suspended but the 9/23 meeting will likely occur.

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