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ANOTHER CERTIFICATE OF INSURANCE NOOSE The first certificate of insurance (COI) article I can recall writing was in 2001, two decades ago. It followed a seminar I attended led by the late, great Don Malecki. That seminar and a series of articles led to a white paper originally published in 2006:
Certificates of Insurance Resources Since that time, I’ve done dozens of seminars and webinars on COIs, the first being a webinar attended, based on our best estimate, by over 7,000 people. Over the next 10 years, I spoke extensively on the subject and things seemed to improve substantially through this effort and that of Big “I” state associations who worked to enact legislation and regulations dealing with the most critical issues. However, in the past year or two, I suspect with a new generation of players, things seem to be reverting to the pre-2010 days. For example, just recently an agent shared with me a series of documentation requirements from an upstream party for whom her insured was working. Among these requests was:
Bill Wilson Founder at InsuranceCommentary.com August 2, 2021
