'Train Wreck' Ahead Over Privacy

Monday, October 9th, 2000 Risk Management

With insurance industry representatives, state and federal regulators and labor officials at odds over privacy regulations, "we’re about to have a train wreck," one state regulator warned here. John Coniff, the Washington state insurance department’s deputy commissioner of health policy, who issued the "train wreck" warning, foresees a collision ahead between federal privacy provisions and the states, which, he said, have "an alphabet soup of privacy laws." A microcosm of the fierce debate over privacy could be observed here during a panel discussion at the annual conference of the Florida Workers’ Compensation Institute, co-sponsored by The National Underwriter Company, publisher of this newspaper.

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