Product Standard Requirement Discontinued

• Effective April 1, 2010, the Oregon Insurance Division (OID) will no longer require Product Standards to be submitted with property, casualty, life, annuities, and health rate filings. This change will NOT affect health insurance form filings, or product standards that are combined with a transmittal. Please refer to the current forms list when creating a filing to verify which product standards are required to be submitted with filings.

  It will take some time to implement the changes to our systems. We estimate completion of this project by January 2011. Your patience is requested while we make all the necessary modifications. Until this project is completed, the system may still prompt for product standards to be attached to the system. Please bypass the prompt, and indicate 'no longer required' in the comment box.

  During the review of a filing, an analyst may request the product standard to be submitted. If a product standard is attached to a filing, when not required, it will be accepted.

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