For insurers dealing with technolog...

For insurers dealing with technology-related compliance issues, these days it all issues down to two acronyms: HIPAA and SERFF

HIPAA assigns to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of which mandates to what degree an insured's private health data are handled SERFF is the propriety electronic rate and form filling classification promoted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

The NAIC's order for Electronic Rate and Form Filing has been around in an form since 1997 and saw voluntary adoption in all 50 states and Washington, DC barely in February. As the name implies, it is a