A Conversation On CMS' Emergency Preparedness Compliance For Healthcare Providers

Last night, Floridians voted to pass the Voting Restoration Amendment that is poised to restore voting rights to an estimated 1.5 million Floridians with prior felony convictions.

For the 26th year, the U.S. Department of State (DOS) has issued registration instructions for the annual Diversity Visa (DV) lottery.

In April, Florida amended its Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act ("Act") to require life insurers to perform Death Master File (DMF) searches for all policies issued since 1992.

On May 1, South Carolina's legislature ratified the South Carolina Insurance Data Security Act, its version of the NAIC's Insurance Data Security Model Law. Next stop: the Governor's office.

A refinery operator ("Wulfe"), sued his former employer alleging several employment related claims, including a claim under the California Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA).

In a case involving a reinsurance participation agreement (RPA), a California trial court has examined the interplay between two seemingly irreconcilable contract provisions: one that provided for the arbitration...

The California Court of Appeals rejected defendants' appeal seeking to enforce an arbitration provision in a reinsurance participation agreement ("RPA").

The California Department of Insurance (DOI) has adopted a set of amendments, effective January 1, 2018, to its regulations regarding reinsurance accounting, agreements and oversight.

Plaintiffs Berkley Risk Solutions LLC, an insurance and reinsurance management services provider, and Admiral Insurance Co., an excess and surplus lines insurer, sued Industrial Re-International Inc., a New York reinsurance intermediary, and its founder, concerning certain commissions for public liability insurance placed with municipalities in Puerto Rico through American Foreign Underwriters Corp. (AFU), a licensed general agency.

Respondent moved for an immediate stay of an arbitration of claims relating to the purchase of insurance and to vacate the panel's interim award requiring the posting of pre-hearing security.

A district judge in the Northern District of Illinois has dismissed all claims brought by the Illinois Director of Insurance, acting as rehabilitator for Triad Guaranty Insurance Corporation and Triad Guaranty Assurance Corporation (collectively "Triad"), after it was placed in rehabilitation, against AAMBG Reinsurance, Inc. and Bank of America ("BOA").

The case involved a dispute between the parties to a Reinsurance Participation Agreement (RPA). Defendants moved to compel arbitration, citing the Federal Arbitration Act and a provision in the RPA agreeing to resolve "[a]ll disputes arising with respect to any provision of this Agreement" in arbitration.

FINRA's proposed amendments, however, resolve any lingering uncertainty for these and any other novel insurance products that may be developed in the future.

The Florida federal court agreed with IRM, noting that under Florida law, "an agent for a disclosed insurer is not liable to the insured on the insurance contract."

In this case, the ceding company, VIP Universal Medical Insurance Group Ltd. ("VIP"), brought an action in Florida federal court against its reinsurer, BF&M Life Insurance Company Ltd. ("BF&M") ...

The amendments will take effect on January 1, 2019.

The question presented to the Court was "whether federal law has opened the door for state law to 'reverse preempt' the diversity jurisdiction statute."

An NAIC working group is considering how to revise provisions in its model regulations governing the content of the policy summary required in life insurance policy illustrations and the policy narrative that must...

New Jersey federal court affirms arbitration award, and denies cross-motion to vacate arbitration award.