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A significant number of states prohibit or restrict the arbitration of disputes between an insurer and its policyholder and/or preclude the inclusion of arbitral provisions in insurance policies.The McCarran-Ferguson Act...more
New York has joined the handful of states that are now accepting applications from non-US reinsurers for recognition as a reciprocal jurisdiction reinsurer under new rules that allow US domestic ceding insurers to receive...more
On January 13, 2017, the then-US Secretary of the Treasury and the then-US Trade Representative (USTR) notified Congress that they had negotiated a covered agreement with the European Union (EU). After a period of uncertainty...more
PREFACE THE NRRA TODAY - The Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act (“NRRA”) came into effect on July 21, 2011 as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The purpose of the NRRA was to create...more
On July 31, 2017 we posted a Special Focus article on the final approval of the Covered Agreement(“the Agreement”) negotiated and entered into by U.S. and E.U. dealing with reinsurance collateral reform and insurance...more
In a much anticipated public hearing, The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) discussed how U.S. states should address the elimination of reinsurance collateral requirements for EU reinsurers of U.S....more
Both the E.U. and the Trump Administration have now indicated that they will sign the Covered Agreement negotiated by the Obama Administration. How and when will the various provisions of this Agreement be implemented? In a...more
On January 13, 2017, the week before the inauguration of President Trump, the U.S. Department of Treasury and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced that the negotiations between the full text of the agreement...more
On Thursday, February 16, the Housing and Insurance subcommittee of the Financial Services Committee of the United States House of Representatives will hold a public hearing entitled, “Assessing the U.S.-EU Covered...more
On January 13, 2017, representatives of the European Union and the United States of America issued a joint statement announcing that they had successfully concluded negotiation of an agreement (the “Agreement” or “Covered...more
On Jan. 13, 2017, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative ("USTR") released the terms of the long-awaited covered agreement between the United States and the European Union (the...more
As we previously reported in June 2016, the United States and the European Union were in discussions to enter into a Covered Agreement. The Dodd-Frank Act introduced Covered Agreements as a means for limited federal intrusion...more
On January 13, 2017, the US Department of the Treasury and the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) announced they have negotiated a “covered agreement” on behalf of the United States (US) with the European Union...more
During the recent campaign, President-elect Donald Trump pledged to repeal the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) if elected, criticizing the regulatory burdens it imposed and contending that it discouraged lending by banks and impaired...more
During the recent election campaign, President-elect Donald Trump pledged to repeal the Dodd-Frank Act if elected, criticizing the regulatory burdens it imposed on different portions of the financial services sector and...more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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