AAIS Compliance Guide

Revised and expanded
to meet today's needs

Over the years, AAIS has provided its affiliates with a free annual guide to state filing requirements. In 2007, this resource was revised and renamed the AAIS Compliance Guide to reflect the expanded scope of information provided in it.

Companies not affiliated with AAIS can now purchase an electronic file of the Compliance Guide for $400 by contacting Rick Maka, director of marketing, at rickm@AAISonline.com, or by calling 800-564-AAIS.

The guide's 600 pages, neatly organized into 11 sections with sub-sections, provides comprehensive information in easy-to-read formats on a wide range of regulations affecting property/casualty forms, rates, and related product materials.

Among other things, the Compliance Guide provides an authoritative single source of filing information for inland marine insurance. It also includes a sub-section on "Applications, Binders, and Certificates of Insurance" that includes information provided courtesy of ACORD, Inc., an organization devoted to standardizing agency forms and agency-company data transmission.

The contents of the Compliance Guide includes the following:

• Definitions (of specific filing terms)

• State notes (on unique jurisdictional conditions and requirements)

• General Information

  • General Submission Summary

  • Filing Laws and Applicability

  • Initial Program Adoption Company Action

  • State Review Checklists (web links)

  • Disclosure Notices

  • Self-Certification Pilot Program

  • Countersignature Requirements

  • Withdrawal Requirements

  • Forms Withdrawal Company Action

• SERFF Information

  • Policy Coding Matrix and Electronic Fund Transfers

  • SERFF Requirements

• Umbrella Filing Information

  • Umbrella Filing Laws

  • Umbrella Forms Company Action

• Rates/Rules Filing Information

  • State Filing Transmittals--Rates/Rules Filing

  • Premium Payment Plans

  • Loss Estimates Supplement - Guide (a) - Company Action

  • Manual Rules and Supplemental Rating Information Company Action

  • Loss Cost Reference Filing Adoption Guidelines

  • Loss Costs Rating Information Company Action

• Forms Filing Information

  • State Filing Transmittals - Forms Filing

  • Readability Guidelines

  • Applications, Binders, and Certificates of Insurance

  • Declaration Pages and Policy Jackets Filing Guidelines

  • Blank Endorsements

  • Forms Company Action

• Filing Fees Checklist

• Inland Marine State Filing Reference

  • General Filing Information

  • Filing Interpretations

  • Filing Requirements - Statutory References

  • Special State Pages (Nebraska, New York, Texas)

  • Nationwide Marine Definition

  • Inland Marine Guide Company Action

  • Initial Adoption Inland Marine Guide Company Action

• Exempt Commercial Policyholders

  • ECP Criteria

• Insurance Department Directory

  • Insurance Department Directory

  • Insurance Commissioners - Elected or Appointed