Get up to date on social media’s influence for insurance privacy laws and regulatory changes. Cl ick to see Ronald Raether's video message about this webinar . R egister now ... Read More
Business Insurance Law and Practice Guide is a comprehensive guide for both insurance companies and attorneys who advise businesses of all sizes. It provides detailed treatment of many different types of insurance, including liability, directors'... Read More
By Daniel W. Gerber, Jeffrey L. Kingsley and Fallyn B. Reichert, Attorneys, Goldberg Segalla LLP Chapter 71 provides a thorough introduction to reinsurance and its commercial purposes; the operation of reinsurance contracts; and certain fundamental... Read More
By Carrie Cope This chapter begins with a discussion of the history and purpose of policy form regulation and notes that dramatic differences among the states in size, geography, industry, politics and financial resources have impacted their reasons... Read More
The Winter 2011 issue of New Appleman on Insurance: Current Critical Issus in Insurance Law features three timely articles of significant importance: • The Supreme Court's 2011 Class Action Decisions: Their Impact on Insurance Class Actions... Read More
By William T. Barker, Partner, SNR Denton Chapter 10 reviews the role of statutes in insurance bad faith litigation. Such litigation has been primarily a creature of the common law. But state insurance regulators also developed model statutes prohibiting... Read More
One of the 45 chapters in the new edition of the New Appleman Insurance Law Practice Guide is "Understanding Life Insurance" by Richard J. Cohen and Daniel W. Gerber of Goldberg Segalla LLP. Section 34.07 of that chapter considers the influence... Read More
By Jay Barry Harris, Lee Applebaum, and Jennifer Tatum Root, Attorneys, Fineman, Krekstein & Harris, P.C. Chapter 69 examines the insurance of commercial vehicles with a particular emphasis on insurance in the commercial trucking industry. This... Read More
By Kristen J. Brown Abstract * * * This chapter examines the powers and remedial options afforded to state insurance commissioners for their regulation of insurance company insolvency. State laws arm insurance commissioners with broad intervention... Read More
By Gary Hernandez and Paige Waters The following chapter discusses the philosophy and methodology behind the regulation of insurer solvency. It begins in Section 14.01[1] with a brief review of the field of solvency regulation. Such regulation seeks... Read More
By Gary M. Cohen This is a time of unprecedented turmoil in the financial markets. The failure of Lehman Brothers and the federal bailout of AIG and other major financial institutions has led policymakers to consider wide-ranging changes to a regulatory... Read More
By Julie McPeak This chapter begins with a description of the issues prevalent in the initial formation of an insurance company, from the perspective of the organizers and the state insurance regulators. Often, matters of concern to regulators opining... Read More
By A. Kenneth Levine A functional insurance market has become commensurate with the health, safety, and welfare of modern society. Insurance products fulfill the need for financial security of most Americans and the commerce upon which the American... Read More
By James Crabtree, Anthony Menzies, Jonathan Rogers, and Susannah Wakefield, Partners, Taylor Wessing This chapter begins in Section 79.01 with a discussion of the history and structure of the Lloyd's Market. A clear understanding of the Lloyd's... Read More
Chapter 1: WHAT IS INSURANCE? Chapter 1 of the New Appleman on Insurance Law Library Edition begins in Section 1.01 with a discussion of the reasons insurance exists. Risk exists throughout the world; life is uncertain, and we cannot foresee exactly... Read More