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General
Bulletin 358	Business Continuity Planning
Bulletin 351	Effect of the People’s Veto on the Maine Individual Reinsurance Association and the Market Provisions of the 2008 Health Reform Act
Bulletin 349	Required Reporting of Disciplinary Actions Pursuant to the Military Personnel Financial Services Protection Act, Pub. L. No. 109-290 (2006)
Bulletin 345	Notice of Risk to Personal Data Act
Bulletin 339	"Best Practices" Market Conduct Initiatives
Bulletin 324	Treatment of Returning Armed Services Personnel
Bulletin 320	Certification of Compliance with Prohibition against Political Contributions
Bulletin 315	Anti-Money-Laundering Provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act
Bulletin 308	Consumer Privacy Obligations of Regulated Insurance Entities
Bulletin 305	Uniform Effective Date for Privacy Standards Under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
Bulletin 279	Antifraud Plans
Bulletin 269	Appointment of Agent for Service of Process
Bulletin 234	Requirements for bond forms
Bulletin 168	Pre-effective date confidentiality of certain form and rate filings
Bulletin 158	Tie-in sales
Company Filing Requirements and Reports
Bulletin 360	Electronic Submission of Rate and Form Filings
Bulletin 359	Health Insurance Emergency Planning and Procedures (Emergency Rule) 30 Day Extension and Alternative Notification for Insurers with Less Than 500 Covered Lives
Bulletin 355	Permitted Accounting Practices Implementation Guidance for Bulletin 355
Bulletin 350	Statistical Reports Required of Insurers Using the 2001 CSO Preferred Class Structure Table
Bulletin 333	Medical Liability Claim Reports
Bulletin 299	Reports on Large Commercial Insureds
Bulletin 292	Reporting Forms for Mandated Benefits
Bulletin 286-A	Revised Supplemental Health Insurance Reporting Form
Bulletin 283	Medical Liability Claim Reports
Bulletin 277	Filing requirements for property and casualty tier rated programs
Bulletin 259	File and use pilot program for selected lines of insurance
Bulletin 241	Loss cost and rate filing procedures workers' compensation insurance
Bulletin 238	Filing procedures for property/casualty forms, rates, and rules
Bulletin 176	Property and casualty insurance prospective loss cost filing procedures
Bulletin 166	Disclosure of workers' compensation reserving policy
Bulletin 149	Liquor liability insurance: reporting requirements for insurers
Bulletin 146	Life and health filing requirement
Bulletin 131	Investments for group self-insurers
Bulletin 108	Filing statistical information by property and casualty companies
Life and Health
Life and Health
Bulletin 253-A	Group insurance purchased by unlicensed financial institutions
Bulletin 253	Group insurance purchased by unlicensed financial institutions
Bulletin 225	Credit insurance commission issues
Bulletin 161	Unfair discrimination against the handicapped
Health Insurance
Bulletin 365	Savings Offset Payments
Bulletin 356	Continuation of Coverage after Temporary Layoff in Non-COBRA Plans
Bulletin 343	New Law Affecting Health Insurance Covering Dependents
Bulletin 342	Timing Requirements and Filing Fees for Health Insurance Rate Filings
Bulletin 337	Clarification of Applicability of Rule 755 to Group Health Insurance Certificates
Bulletin 335	Coverage of Mental Health Providers Under Health Insurance Policies
Bulletin 332	Health Insurance Annual Report Supplement - Amended "Short" Form
Bulletin 326	Health Insurance: New Rule 755 - Clarification
Bulletin 323	Continuity of Health Insurance: Waiting Periods not Counted as Break in Coverage
Bulletin 311	Individual Medical Insurance: Notice of Rate Increases and Right to Request Hearing
Bulletin 307	Employee Leasing Arrangements and the Small Group Health Law
Bulletin 306	Miscellaneous Health Insurance Issues
Bulletin 304	An Act to Update and Amend the Preferred Provider Arrangement
Bulletin 303	Small Group Health Insurance - Association Groups
Bulletin 301	Clarification of Health Insurance Laws
Bulletin 294	Newborn Coverage
Bulletin 293	Drug Benefits in Standard and Basic Health Plans
Bulletin 292	Reporting Forms for Mandated Benefits
Bulletin 291	Health Plan Grievance and Appeal Processes
Bulletin 288	Health Insurance - Grace Periods
Bulletin 285	Small Group Health Insurance: Eligibility Standards
Bulletin 273	Employee And Spouse Rates Under Small Group Health Insurance
Bulletin 266	Length of Inpatient Maternity Stays
Bulletin 265	Utilization Review Determinations
Bulletin 263	Disclosure requirements for short-term policies
Bulletin 260-A	Provider networks
Bulletin 260	Provider networks
Bulletin 252	Guaranteed issue requirements in the small group and individual health insurance market: switching from a high deductible to a low deductible policy
Bulletin 245	Small group health insurance: miscellaneous issues
Bulletin 240	Small group and individual health insurance: guarantee issue and the prohibition against tie-in sales requirements
Bulletin 237	Educational and training standards in preferred provider arrangements
Bulletin 230	Individual and group health insurance
Bulletin 224	Coinsurance on mental health and substance abuse benefits
Bulletin 221	Small group health insurance: participation requirements
Bulletin 218	Small group health insurance:l guarantee issue and inforce policy exclusions
Bulletin 212	Small group health insurance: commission scales
Bulletin 211	Small group health insurance: clarification
Bulletin 210	Small group health insurance
Bulletin 206	Definitions related to diagnosis and treatment of infertility
Bulletin 188	Court mandated substance abuse treatment
Bulletin 184	Continuity of health insurance and "actively at work" requirements
Bulletin 179	Applicability of continuity of health insurance statute
Bulletin 174	Continuity of health insurance
Bulletin 159	Application of utilization review programs to mandated benefits for the treatment of mental illness, alcoholism, and drug dependency
Bulletin 156	Reports of pre-utilization review
Long Term Care
Bulletin 363	Inflation Protection Requirements for Long-Term Care Partnership Policies
Bulletin 362	Implementation of the Maine Long-Term Care Partnership Program
Bulletin 361	Announcement of Maine’s Long-Term Care Partnership Program
Medicare Supplement
Bulletin 354	Retrospective Denials of Medicare Supplement Claims
Bulletin 340	Marketing Medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage Plans
Bulletin 327	Standardized Medicare Supplement Rate Relationships to Benefits Covered
Bulletin 251	Revised federal requirements for coverage which overlaps Medicare
Life and Annuities
Bulletin 338	Deferred, Non-variable Annuities; Implementation of Amended Formula for Calculating Nonforfeiture Values
Bulletin 318	Implementation of the Act to Reduce the Minimum Interest Rate for Nonforfeiture
Bulletin 199	Claims paying ability and credit rating downgrade bail-out provisions in annuity contracts
Property and Casualty
Automobile Insurance
Bulletin 357	Coercive Claim Settlement Activity
Bulletin 346	Uninsured Motorist Coverage Government Vehicle Exclusion
Bulletin 336	Motor Vehicle Glass and Collision Damage Repair
Bulletin 334	Automobile Insurance Rating and Underwriting of Insureds Based on Advancing Age Prohibited
Bulletin 330	Uninsured Motorist Coverage
Bulletin 313	Mandatory Automobile Insurance Premium Discount For Safe, Mature Drivers
Bulletin 284	Automobile Insurance Glass Claims
Bulletin 276	Increased Minimum Limits Requirement Motor Vehicle Insurance - Supersedes Bulletin 268
Bulletin 246	Collision damage coverage on rental cars: third party claimants without collision coverage applicable to a rental car
Bulletin 182	Insurance identification cards
Bulletin 173	Automobile insurance renewal practices
Bulletin 171	Motor vehicle glass claims
Bulletin 164	Youthful operators
Bulletin 163	Proof of prior automobile insurance
Worker's Compensation
Bulletin 320	Certification of Compliance with Prohibition against Political Contributions
Bulletin 242	Use of self insurance for experience rating by insurers
Bulletin 198	Medical deductible for workers compensation
Miscellaneous
Bulletin 364	Insurance Coverage for Family Child Care Providers
Bulletin 353	Post-Judgment Interest
Bulletin 348	Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007
Bulletin 341	Terrorism Risk Insurance Extension Act of 2005
Bulletin 331	Coinsurance Disclosures
Bulletin 329	Implementation of the Act to Ensure Fairness Regarding Use of Consumer Credit Reports in Insurance Underwriting
Bulletin 317	Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002
Bulletin 316	Personal Lines Insurance; Effect of Agency Termination on Policy Renewal
Bulletin 233	Property/casualty rebating -- law: permissible commission reduction
Bulletin 201	Counting statutory notice
Bulletin 194	Measuring the loss: inclusion of sales tax in total loss settlements
Bulletin 143	Roll-on coverages
Producer/Agency Compliance
Bulletin 347	Producer Training - Long-Term Care Insurance Policies
Bulletin 344	Flood Insurance Training Requirements for Insurance Producers with a Property Line of Authority Selling through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)
Bulletin 328	Placement of Insurance in Surplus Lines Market
Bulletin 271	Responsibility for Training and Supervision of Producers

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