By Earl Zimmerman, Partner, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP This Legal Alert addresses the “ White Paper on High-Level Corporate Governance Principles for Use in U.S. Insurance Regulation ” ( click the link to download), which was... Read More

By Karen C. Yotis, Esq. Forced-placed insurance (FPI), which is sometimes referred to as 'lender-placed insurance,' is a specialty product that is intended to insure properties when standard property coverage is allowed to lapse. During the... Read More

On this edition, LexisNexis Insurance Law Community Manager Karen Yotis talks with Susan E. Voss, Commissioner of the Iowa Insurance Division and President of the NAIC, discusses the recent commissioners conference, health care reform issues, financial... Read More

During 2013 Governor Jerry Brown signed four bills that the California Department of Insurance (CDI) sponsored during the legislative year. The bills are: AB 32 (Chapter 608, Statutes of 2013) authored by Assembly Speaker John Pérez (D-Los Angeles... Read More

By M. Machua Millett, Associate, Edwards Angell Palmer and Dodge LLP China is considering reviving its plan to set up a super regulator in order to make the government's oversight of the financial sector more efficient and expedient and improve... Read More

By Fred E. Karlinsky, Richard J. Fidei, and Elizabeth M. Fohl, Attorneys, Colodny, Fass, Talenfeld, Karlinsky & Abate Fred E. Karlinsky, Richard J. Fidei, and Elizabeth M. Fohl of the law firm of of Colodny, Fass, Talenfeld, Karlinsky & Abate... Read More

BUSINESS: In FLORIDA, Gov. Scott signs HB 383, which adds the Sunshine State to those that have adopted the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact, which serves as a central point of electronic filing for insurance products like life insurance... Read More

By J. Wylie Donald, Partner, McCarter & English This is the last of three parts concerning Ceres' recently released Climate Risk Disclosures by Insurers: Evaluating Insurer Responses to the NAIC Climate Disclosure Survey . We already have... Read More

By J. Wylie Donald, Partner, McCarter & English We wrote yesterday to introduce Ceres' report on the disclosure of climate risks by insurers and considered its first Recommendation to Regulators concerning mandatory and public disclosures... Read More

By Mary Kay Martire, Partner, Foley & Lardner LLP On July 21, 2011, a portion of the Dodd-Frank Act known as the Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act (15 U.S.C. § 8201, et seq.) (NRRA) took effect. NRRA is one example of the continuing trend... Read More

By Douglas Y. Christian, Damian L. DiNicola, and Benjamin M. Schmidt, Attorneys, Ballard Spahr LLP The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has rejected the efforts of the Pennsylvania Insurance Department (PID) to liquidate two long-term care insurance... Read More

By Barry Zalma, Attorney and Consultant States are called upon to enforce sanctions against insurance agents and brokers who violate the law and defraud the public. In doing so they act as both police agencies and administrative agencies dealing... Read More

By Karl L. Rubinstein 1 Title V of the new Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank”) is named the “Federal Insurance Office Act of 2010.” Several provisions of Title V---foreshadow massive federal... Read More

By Karen C. Yotis As one of the founders of the Association of Insurance Compliance Professionals, Jerry Bell –whose career in the insurance industry dates back to 1953—was one of the keynote speakers at the AICP’s recent annual meeting... Read More

By J. Wylie Donald, Partner, McCarter & English Ceres released last month the first analysis of the insurer climate change disclosures submitted to state regulators pursuant to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners rule. The report... Read More