On November 30, 2017, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") canceled mandatory hip fracture and cardiac bundled payment models and implemented changes to the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement ("CJR") model.

In a recent opinion, a Massachusetts appeals court was required to determine who is liable to pay workers' compensation benefits owed by a self-insured employer that has gone bankrupt?

Lloyd's issued an insurance policy with an arbitration provision, covering direct physical loss or physical damage caused by windstorm and/or hail.

A Brazilian mining and steelmaking company (Companhia Siderurgica Nacional, S.A. ("CSN")), a Brazilian insurance company (IRB Brazil Resseguros, S.A. ("IRB")) ...

Insurance regulators in Iowa and Virginia have adopted the NAIC's Model Rules regulating term and universal life insurance reserve financing.

The filed-rate doctrine precluded recovery of deficiency assessments the Workers' Compensation Reinsurance Association (WCRA) levied against employers which were alleged to have been wrongfully collected...

The Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2010 ("NRRA") provisions are applicable in Puerto Rico.

Capitol Life Insurance Co. moved the Court of Appeals for the Fifth District of Texas for rehearing of the court's prior affirmance of summary judgment against Capitol in favor of MetLife Insurance Company USA...

Capitol Life Insurance Co. moved the Court of Appeals for the Fifth District of Texas for rehearing of the court's prior affirmance of summary judgment against Capitol in favor of MetLife Insurance Company USA, ...

On December 7, the Investor Advisory Committee of the SEC adopted a recommendation that the SEC seriously explore the development of a summary disclosure document for mutual fund companies ...

We previously reported on the Texas Legislature's passage in 2017 of Senate Bill 1070, which reduced collateral requirements for foreign reinsurers in order for domestic insurers to receive

The Texas Department of Insurance has proposed to reorganize its Surplus Lines Insurance Chapter 15 in the Texas Administrative Code. The proposed new Chapter 15 can be found here.

An employer did not waive its right to compel arbitration under an employment agreement by seeking to set aside a default in an employment discrimination suit brought against it by its employee.

A panel of the Second Circuit has, in an unpublished summary order, emphasized the high bar that must be cleared by a party seeking to vacate an arbitration award.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently held that state law governs whether a contract's arbitration clause is binding on non-signatories.

Respondent argued against the confirmation of the arbitral award as it was based upon the consent of the parties, rather than a disputed hearing, which it contended made the award...

This dispute stemmed from a complaint filed by Edmondson, alleging claims under the Federal Odometer Act and the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, as well as state law claims for fraud, in relation to her purchase of a...

U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.