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The PRA has provided further insight on aspects of its proposed approach to insurance regulation in the post-Brexit world.

In part 2 of our blog series on reinsurance issues arising from COVID-19, we consider the difficulties that might arise from the application of aggregation clauses in reinsurance policies to COVID-19 losses.

As we head to the NAIC Spring National Meeting in Denver this weekend, here are just a few of the issues the Dentons IREG team will be engaged in:

The special features of mesothelioma (its "indivisible" nature and its long latency) have thrown up many complex legal questions resulting in the creation of special mesothelioma jurisprudence...

The Climate and Resiliency (EX) Task Force ("CRTF") of the US National Association of Insurance Commissioners ("NAIC") met on August 11, 2025 at the NAIC's Summer 2025 National Meeting in Minneapolis...

In Preferred Mutual Insurance Company v. Donnelly, CA 13-00319, 2013 WL 5952018 (N.Y. App. Div. Nov. 8, 2013), a New York appellate court, applying New York law, affirmed the trial court’s summary judgment order holding that the insurer,

The World Health Organization classified the coronavirus (COVID-19) as a pandemic on 11 March 2020 and, since that time, the pandemic has caused unprecedented socio-economic disruption across the globe ...

The U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) recently made several changes to the survey form for the mandatory BE-140 Benchmark Survey of Insurance Transactions by U.S.

On 1 May 2006, the Bolivian government passed a law, Supreme Decree 28701, announcing that it was taking over the oil and gas resources in the country. This nationalisation policy sent shock waves throughout the oil and gas industry, especially foreign companies operating in Bolivia, including Repsol of Spain, B.P. of the United Kingdom, Total of France and Petrobras of Brazil.

On May 1, 2006, the Bolivian government passed a law, Supreme Decree 28701, announcing that it was taking over the oil and gas resources in the country.This nationalization policy sent shock waves throughout the oil and gas industry, especially foreign companies operating in Bolivia, including Repsol of Spain, B.P. of the United Kingdom,Total of France and Petrobras of Brazil.

In Deasang Corp. v. NutraSweet Co., the Appellate Division overturned a ruling by a lower court vacating an arbitral award on the ground that the arbitral panel ...

When the claimant obtained a $13 million judgment, the defendant's insurers immediately paid their policy limits, which were insufficient to cover the entire judgment.

Reinsurance can be a critical component in insurance coverage litigation – and it's not nearly as complex as it may seem.

Since arbitration is a process of dispute resolution in accordance with a private agreement, the question of consolidation of arbitral proceedings ought to be determined in the same manner as other procedural issues.

In the recent case of Zephyrus Capital Aviation Partners 1D Ltd & Ors v Fidelis Underwriting Ltd & Ors (Re Russian Aircraft Operator Policy Claims (Jurisdiction Applications))...

In a recent case, the California Court of Appeal, interpreting California law, affirmed a stay granted on the ground of forum non conveniens that was sought by liability insurers in a brain-injury coverage case filed by the NFL.

The Fifth Circuit has ruled in a Louisiana case that income that a New Orleans jewelry chain lost while being closed due to pandemic orders were not the result of "direct physical loss."

Widely reported allegations of fraud at an offshore company this past summer have drawn attention to the use of letters of credit (LOCs) to secure reinsurance obligations.