Regulatory Assessment

BB-RNW-0166 FLAG

CO · auto · renewal · decided 2026-09-30 09:12 UTC · Bluebonnet Mutual Insurance Company (fictional)

On 2026-09-30, price-opt v7.2 (an internally developed system) produced 'rate' in a CO auto renewal transaction. Inputs included telematics, credit, geography, vehicle, claims history. External consumer data and information sources were present. No human reviewed the output before it took effect. The outcome was not adverse to the consumer. RegBench applied 10 rule(s) in force on 2026-09-30 and recorded 1 finding(s); the most serious is 'ECDIS used outside an attested governance and risk management framework (amended Regulation 10-1-1)' (medium, L3).

FLAG: 1 finding(s) under rules 2026.10+c4982313, corpus 2026-10-30-9c5dad5a. Routed to the carrier's compliance reviewer with cited findings.

Coverage: supported. 4 state-specific and 2 general black-letter rule(s) applied to this CO auto renewal transaction. Only the configured checks were run; a result is not a legal opinion on compliance. 10 of 30 rules applied.

Evidence (missing). Missing evidence: ai_system.governance_attested. Supplied but unverified: ai_system.model_doc_ref, ai_system.testing_report_ref, inputs.data_source_refs.

Findings (1)

medium L3 black letter flag exhibit A, B co.reg-10-1-1.governance-framework-amended

ECDIS used outside an attested governance and risk management framework (amended Regulation 10-1-1)

Finding. The decision used external consumer data and information sources, or a model built on them, in a line the amended regulation covers (individually issued life, private passenger auto, health benefit plans), and the system is not attested as covered by the governance and risk management framework.

Basis. Regulation 10-1-1 § 5.A, as amended effective 15 October 2025, requires covered insurers using ECDIS to establish a risk-based framework with documented governing principles, board oversight, senior management accountability, a cross-functional governance group, an up-to-date inventory with version control, documented testing and monitoring, vendor selection and annual reviews; § 6 requires an annual officer-attested compliance report.

Required action. Add the system to the Regulation 10-1-1 inventory, attest framework coverage, and include it in the next annual report filed through SERFF.

Excerpt: co-reg-10-1-1-s5 · state regulation (government edict) · in force from 2025-10-15

Applies to insurers offering individually issued life insurance, private passenger automobile insurance and health benefit plans. "Insurers ... that use ECDIS, as well as algorithms and predictive models that use ECDIS in any insurance practice, must establish a risk-based governance and risk management framework that facilitates and supports policies, procedures, systems, and controls designed to determine whether the use of such ECDIS, algorithms, and predictive models potentially result in unfair discrimination with respect to race and remediate unfair discrimination, if detected through quantitative testing requirements established by the Division." Required components include documented governing principles (1), board or board-committee oversight (2), senior management accountability with "regular reporting to senior management on the performance and potential risks" (3), a documented cross-functional governance group (4), for health plans a provider "ultimately responsible for the decisions" when ECDIS-based tools inform denials or modifications (5), documented policies and procedures (6), complaint and inquiry processes (7), risk assessment (8), a "documented up-to-date inventory, including version control" (9), explanation of material inventory changes (10), a "documented description of quantitative testing conducted pursuant to requirements established by the Division" (11), ongoing performance monitoring "accounting for model drift" (12), documented vendor selection (13) and annual reviews (14).

Excerpt: co-reg-10-1-1-s6 · state regulation (government edict) · in force from 2025-10-15

Insurers using ECDIS must submit a narrative progress report (life: 1 June 2024; private passenger auto and health: 1 December 2025) and, annually, "a report summarizing compliance with the requirements in Section 5 and the title and qualifications of each individual responsible for ensuring compliance" (life: 1 December 2024 and annually; auto and health: 1 July 2026 and annually), signed by an officer attesting to compliance, filed through SERFF; insurers not using ECDIS file an officer attestation to that effect.

Point in time

Law as of
2026-09-30
Rules version
2026.10+c4982313
Corpus snapshot
2026-10-30-9c5dad5a
Engine
regbench-engine/0.5.0 · deterministic-1
Fingerprint
90b8fb49776d10eb6f73013b (pattern grouping, not an integrity check)
Input digest
880ec2a387e74facd2216995504621613b1708d9bc3adf1e9abb7f03ea3ded63
Evaluated
2026-10-31 05:42:53 UTC
Exhibit C case file
yes

Ledger

Entry
#5669 · assessment · recorded 2026-09-30T09:13:24+00:00
Hash
c87fcc0cbb17f5a1f012a966db65b3373fcbd9fd73c47a63a3d6dd0dfb1336ee
Previous
3d85daf706ac53d0b668a8e91ef9de99233f85c63eda058cabab8d574ac3b3d7
Stored copy intact
yes, hashes match
Assessed input intact
yes, revision 1 matches the input digest

Verify the whole chain Case file JSON

Carrier review

Resolved by compliance · outcome remediated · 25.5 hours after it opened · Resolved in the carrier's review queue (synthetic).

Recorded facts revision 1

As asserted by the carrier. References are recorded, not verified: RegBench holds no copy of the documents they name.

AI system
price-opt v7.2 · internal · high-risk class: pricing
Governance attested
False
Testing report
test://bluebonnet/price-opt/2026Q2
Model documentation
doc://bluebonnet/price-opt/7.2
Feature classes
telematics, credit, geography, vehicle, claims_history
Protected factors used
none
External data (ECDIS)
True
Consumer report / credit
False / True
Data sources
cra://demo-bureau/score, telematics://bluebonnet/program
Decision
rate · score 0.298 · premium -6.3%
Human review
none
Adverse to consumer
False
Notice
not recorded · reasons: False · specific: False · external data disclosed: False
Appeal channel
–
Consumer token
tok_f086a614b6