The Fifth Circuit refused to enforce an order of the NLRB that found an arbitration agreement was invalid because it waived an employee's right to maintain employment related class or collective actions.

On May 8, 2018, the governor of Minnesota signed H.F. 3622, a bill implementing the 2011 NAIC Credit for Reinsurance Model Law and Regulations. The bill creates a new classification...

On October 26, 2017, President Donald Trump signed H.R. 2266, a disaster relief bill. Pursuant to section 308 of the bill, the Department of the Treasury will forgive $16 billion in debt owed by FEMA...

On March 6, 2017, the Governor of South Dakota signed into law House Bill 1045 conforming South Dakota law to the current version of the Credit for Reinsurance NAIC Model Law (Model 785).

The NAIC recently held a hearing on the implementation of the reduced reinsurance collateral provisions of the Covered Agreement

Both the E.U. and the Trump Administration have now indicated that they will sign the Covered Agreement negotiated by the Obama Administration.

As we previously reported, courts continue to sift through the unsettled law left in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Superior Court of California.

Defendants appealed an order from a California federal district court that denied their motion to compel individual arbitration of a former employee's representative claim under California's Private Attorney General Act (PAGA).

Ultimately, the NPS approved the survey, finding that it was unlikely to cause any significant or lasting environmental impacts.

The plaintiff, a farming company, demanded arbitration against Diversified Crop Insurance Services over the nonpayment of federally reinsured claims.

Seeking reimbursement of fees paid, allegedly by mistake, under the transitional reinsurance program in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the trustees of the Twin City Pipe Trades Welfare Fund's sued ...

Post-trial motions are to be filed by December 29, 2017.

Defendant provided the district court with copies of two contracts – a Reinsurance Participation Agreement and a Request to Bind – that were purportedly signed by Plaintiff's CEO and contained arbitration clauses.

We previously posted on the trial court's ruling addressing the statute of limitations in this case on June 23, 2016.

The follow the fortunes (or follow the settlements) doctrine has been an important part of many reinsurance relationships.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners held its Fall National Meeting December 2-4 in Hawaii, saying aloha to 2017 and aloha to 2018. Key takeaways include:

U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals

This case arose from a putative class action alleging claims against Groupon on the basis of its reimbursement policies. After the trial court ordered the parties to arbitrate pursuant...

Citing the recent United States Supreme Court decision in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the argument that an arbitration agreement was invalid ...

The United States and the European Union have agreed on the final wording of a Covered Agreement which covers several topics, including the provision of collateral by foreign reinsurers.