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Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

NAIC Discusses Best Practices for Restructuring Mechanisms

Insurers with legacy blocks of business, or with other motivations to enter into block transfers of business or corporate split-offs, should consider a recent regulator call on so-called Insurance Business Transfers (IBTs)...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Food and Beverage Law Update: July 2021

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"The overwhelming majority of courts have concluded that neither COVID-19 nor the governmental orders associated with it cause or constitute property loss or damage for purposes of insurance coverage." So concluded the...more

Maynard Nexsen

March 2021 Fourth Circuit Tort & Insurance Cases of Interest

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Periodically, Nexsen Pruet member Marc Manos, a member of the SC Bar Torts and Insurance Practice Section Council, sheds light on a few recent cases from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, focused in the areas of tort &...more

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New York Appellate Court Holds New York Department of Financial Services Regulation 187 Violates Due Process Rights as it is...

The amended Regulation 187, Suitability and Best Interests in Life Insurance and Annuity Transactions (Regulation) took effect Aug. 1, 2019, for annuity sales, and began applying to life insurance sales on Feb. 1, 2020. The...more

Harris Beach PLLC

State Appellate Court Affirms Out-of-State Liquidation Order Not Entitled to Full Faith and Credit

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A risk retention group (RRG) is a state-chartered insurance company that insures commercial businesses and government entities against liability risks, including medical malpractice. In 2017, Oceanus Insurance Company, RPG,...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Due Process in Chapter 15: Industry-Dependent, Jurisdiction-Dependent, or Both?

In a recent cross-border insolvency case, Judge Glenn of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York recognized an insurance company rehabilitation proceeding in Curaçao as a “foreign main...more

Michigan Auto Law

Detroit Mayor Duggan’s No-Fault lawsuit

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Here’s the easy fix to Mayor Duggan’s lawsuit to find Michigan’s auto No Fault law unconstitutional and repeal No Fault law - There’s an easy fix staring us in the face to Mayor Duggan’s lawsuit that was filed last...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Retroactive application of unclaimed property law for life insurance deemed unconstitutional in Florida

Legislation requiring the life insurance industry to conduct searches of the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File (DMF) and set the trigger for the escheatment dormancy period at the date of an insured’s death...more

Carlton Fields

Real Property & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending May 19 & 26, 2017

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Real Property Update - Foreclosure/Standing/Lost Note: if plaintiff did not have right to enforce note when lost, plaintiff should present evidence of assignment from payee to plaintiff or affidavit of ownership - ...more

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Real Property & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending April 28 & May 5, 2017

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REAL PROPERTY UPDATE - Foreclosure: final summary judgment in borrower’s favor inappropriate where borrower merely asserted that lender mistakenly filed copy of original note with court, instead of original, and where...more

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Structure Of CFPB Found To Be Unconstitutional But Agency Survives With Cut To Director’s Power

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The DC Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that the single-director structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) was unconstitutional, and gave the President the authority to fire the director at will in...more

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US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Declares Structure of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Unconstitutional

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The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit declared the structure of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unconstitutional, stating that the “massive, unchecked power” exercised by its director, Richard Cordray, lacks...more

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CFPB Deputy Enforcement Director mum on whether CFPB will seek further review of PHH decision

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During the “Developments at the CFPB” panel this morning at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute Consumer Financial Services & Banking Law Update program in Philadelphia, Jeffrey Ehrlich, the CFPB’s Deputy Enforcement Director,...more

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What the D.C. Circuit’s PHH decision means for CFPB rulemaking

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In its decision last week in PHH Corporation v. CFPB, the D.C. Circuit ruled that the CFPB’s single-director-removable-only-for-cause structure is unconstitutional. While the D.C. Circuit (in footnote 19) noted that it “need...more

Burr & Forman

D.C. Circuit Holds Structure of CFPB Unconstitutional, Vacates $109 Million Fine Arising out of Mortgage Lender’s “Captive...

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On Tuesday the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued what is already being touted as a landmark ruling in PHH Corp. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, No. 15-1177, 2016 WL 5898801 (D.C. Cir. Oct. 11, 2016), holding in a...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

CFPB Hit by Major Setback in D.C. Circuit

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In a decision eagerly awaited by the financial services industry, the D.C. Circuit this week handed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) a major defeat, throwing out a mortgage lender’s $109 million disgorgement...more

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D.C. Circuit Rules CFPB’s Structure Unconstitutional

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In a news-making decision with significant political implications, but probably limited near-term business or legal effects, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held on Tuesday, October 11,...more

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D.C. Circuit Brings CFPB under Presidential Control

On October 11, 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued its long-awaited opinion in PHH Corp. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in which the Court held that the structure of the Consumer...more

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Leadership Structure of CFPB Ruled Unconstitutional

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The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued its ruling in PHH Corporation v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday and determined that the single-director structure of the CFPB...more

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Key Consumer Finance Takeaways from the DC Circuit’s PHH Decision

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On October 11, 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued a highly-anticipated decision in PHH Corporation, et al., v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that has far reaching...more

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A Truckload of Trouble for the CFPB

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Within days after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau started operations, a truckload of boxes from the Department of Housing and Urban Development arrived at the CFPB Office of Enforcement. The boxes held evidence from...more

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D.C. Circuit Holds CFPB Structure Unconstitutional, Interpretation of RESPA Not Entitled to Deference

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The D.C. Circuit yesterday issued its long-awaited decision in PHH Corporation v. CFPB. In reversing the decision of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Cordray to impose an enhanced penalty of $109 million...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

DC Circuit Strikes Down CFPB Leadership Structure

On October 11, 2016 the D.C. Circuit in PHH Corporation v. CFPB, No. 15-1177, struck down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) leadership structure as unconstitutional. In short, the court ruled that Congress...more

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Federal Appeals Court Finds CFPB's Structure Unconstitutional

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While certainly a big blow to the Bureau, the court’s remedy did not go as far as some CFPB opponents would have liked. In a blockbuster ruling on October 11, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...more

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CFPB’s Structure Ruled Unconstitutional but it Avoids Being Dismantled

On October 11, 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued its highly anticipated opinion in PHH Corp., et al. v. CFPB, holding that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) structure is...more

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