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Steuart Thomsen

Steuart Thomsen

Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP


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Legal Alert: Senate Finance Committee Hears Testimony on Proposal to Limit Access to Death Master File

On April 16, 2013, the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on “Tax Fraud and Tax ID Theft: Moving Forward With Solutions,” including testimony on proposals to restrict access to the Social Security Administration’s Death...more

4/22/2013 - Death Master Files Identity Theft Personally Identifiable Information SSA Tax Fraud

Legal Alert: Administration Proposes To Limit Access to Death Master File

Over the past two years, states have undertaken various initiatives – including audits, exams, regulations, and legislation – intended to require insurers to compare their life insurance policy records with the record of...more

4/16/2013 - Access Accessibility Rules Death Master Files Identity Theft Life Insurance Proposed Regulation Tax Fraud U.S. Treasury

Legal Alert: Constitutional Challenge to Kentucky's Death Master File Statute Rejected

A Kentucky state trial court has rejected a challenge to a state statute requiring life insurers to search the Social Security Administration Death Master File (DMF) and attempt to locate potential beneficiaries, holding that...more

4/4/2013 - Beneficiaries Death Master Files Insurers Life Insurance Social Security Adminstration Unclaimed Life Insurance Benefits Act

Legal Alert: Retained Asset Account Litigation—Summary Judgment Entered for MetLife

On March 8, 2013, the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, Judge Larry R. Hicks presiding, granted the defendant - insurer’s motions for summary judgment in the consolidated, putative class actions, Keife v....more

3/21/2013 - Federal Employees Insurers Life Insurance MetLife Retained Asset Accounts Summary Judgment

Legal Alert: Cost of Insurance Litigation – Recent Rulings Diverge on the Scope of Insurer Discretion to Set Rates

Litigation continues in various cases challenging cost of insurance rates (COI) in life insurance policies, and January 2013 saw courts issue decisions going both ways on insurer discretion to set and modify COI rates. A...more

2/7/2013 - COI Rates Conseco Life Insurance Company Insurance Rates Midland National Life Insurance Company

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