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A discussion on the importance of the Wolters ruling.

In December 2005, after a four-and-a-half year process, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) formally adopted a new Model Act entitled the Insurer Receivership Model Act (IRMA).

At the Summer 2023 US National Meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners ("NAIC"), the Financial Condition (E) Committee (the "Committee")...

At the Summer 2023 US National Meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners ("NAIC"), the Joint Meeting of the Financial Stability (E) Task Force (the "Task Force") and the Macroprudential...

On August 20, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reinstated a class action asserting claims under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 against a reinsurance...

At 1:21 p.m. local time on January 8, 2008, an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale occurred in the Central American country of Costa Rica. It left 18 people dead, 40 missing and hundreds injured.

The passage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) marked a significant milestone in Congress's ongoing efforts to address escalating health care costs.

The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has for several years been heavily focussed on developments in the UK life sector.

The vast majority of reinsurance disputes are decided by alternative dispute resolution methods.

On September 9, 2021, the Federal Housing Finance Agency ("FHFA") released guidance regarding Federal Home Loan Bank ("FHLB") membership eligibility.

For many in the insurance industry, 2022 was a year of growth, a year dedicated to gaining traction after the residual effects of 2020. As we enter 2023,

In a non-reinsurance case, a surety on a performance bond sued the public transportation authorities that contracted with the contractor principal.

Andrew Fastow pled guilty. Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were convicted. Scores of other directors and officers who gathered around U.S. corporate conference tables in recent years have since become the subject of civil lawsuits or criminal indictments or both.The recent guilty verdict against Enron’s top two executives is but one more domino to fall in a series of corporate scandals that have ricocheted through America’s boardrooms and courtrooms during the past decade.

In recent years, the question of whether the arbitration panel has the authority to rewrite terms of the reinsurance contract in resolving disputes between cedents and reinsurers has played prominently in the courts in the United States.

A discussion on a recent case where the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, applying Pennsylvania law, reversed the district court’s summary judgment order holding that a general liability insurer had a duty to defend and indemnify a policyholder in a lawsuit seeking damages resulting from an accident occurring off the policyholder’s premises.

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic declared by the World Health Organization ("WHO"), and more than 4,088,848 confirmed positive cases worldwide, preliminary US Government estimates...

In recent months, many Florida businesses have been unable to obtain property insurance coverage or have been able to obtain coverage only with lower limits, increased deductibles or significantly higher premiums. On August 15, 2006, the Florida Governor and Cabinet, sitting as the Financial Services Commission, responded by creating a residual market entity for commercial property insurance, the Property and Casualty Joint Underwriting Association (PCJUA).

In recent months, many Florida businesses have been unable to obtain property insurance coverage or have been able to obtain coverage only with lower limits, increased deductibles or significantly higher premiums.