Point-of-Sale Finance Series: Health Care Financing Compliance, Regulatory, and Privacy Pitfalls — Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
Point-of-Sale Finance Series: Health Care Financing Compliance, Regulatory, and Privacy Pitfalls — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Financial Responsibilities in the Surplus Lines Market — Surplus Lines 360
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion Podcast - Voluntary Benefits and the Rising Risk for Employers
Demystifying Surplus Lines Group Insurance — Surplus Lines 360
The Down-Low on Data for Value-Based Enterprises and Their Participating Providers – Diagnosing Health Care Video Podcast
Investing in Resilience: How Extreme Weather is Reshaping Infrastructure Investment and Risk
Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Preparing for 2026 – Mandatory Roth and Optional Super Catch-Up Contributions — Troutman Pepper Locke Podcast
Understanding the Surplus Lines Broker’s Role: Key Responsibilities and Regulatory Insights — Surplus Lines 360
42 CFR Part 2 Final Rule: What’s Changing and What Do You Need to Know? – Diagnosing Health Care Video Podcast
Introducing Surplus Lines 360
Flood remains compliance challenge
Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Preparing for 2026 – Top Five Health and Welfare Updates — Troutman Pepper Locke Podcast
Predictably Unpredictable: Considerations & Lessons Learned Regarding Force Majeure
The Standard Formula Podcast | Assessing Prudential Solvency Regimes in the Middle East
Criminal Health Care Fraud Enforcement: Projections for 2025 and Beyond – Diagnosing Health Care Video Podcast
The Standard Formula Podcast | Assessing Prudential Insurance Regulation in Japan
The Standard Formula Podcast | Unpacking the IAIS’ Adoption of the Insurance Capital Standard
Podcast - Rewriting the Narrative of Private Equity in Healthcare
AI Talk With Juliana Neelbauer - Episode Three - Cybersecurity Insurance: Coverage Challenges and Changes
In an attempt to modernize benefits, Alabama has taken the bold step of being the first state to enact legislation allowing independent contractors to build portable benefit coverage. Traditionally, employee sponsored...more
This week, President Trump called on Congress to pass legislation to implement “The Great Healthcare Plan," which includes reforms to lower drug prices and insurance premiums, and HHS reinstated $2 billion in mental health...more
On January 9, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit reversed a district court’s partial grant of summary judgment and remanded a class action under the FCRA. The appeal addressed whether both named and unnamed class...more
A new trend in Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) class actions is targeting employers and benefits consultants over voluntary benefit programs, such as accident, critical illness, cancer and hospital...more
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On January 14, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that five Kaiser Permanente affiliates agreed to pay $556 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by submitting unsupported...more
On January 14, Maryland’s attorney general announced that the state’s Consumer Protection Division (CPD) entered into a settlement resolving allegations that several joint venture title agency companies formed between a title...more
On January 12, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the petition for writ of certiorari in Guardian Flight, leaving in place the Fifth Circuit’s June 2025 decision that we covered in our prior post. As a result, within the Fifth...more
The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) has embarked on a robust transformation of the Medi-Cal program aimed at improving healthcare quality, access, and equity for members. These priorities have been...more
A large plaintiffs’ firm ended 2025 and kicked off 2026 with several ERISA lawsuits against different employee plan sponsors, alleging fiduciary duty violations concerning the management and administration of voluntary...more
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One year into the second Trump administration, we have seen a continuation of some evergreen enforcement priorities as well as new fonts of potential risk and exposure. As in years past, the investigation and prosecution of...more
We have the first New York Appellate Decision on workers’ compensation for the new year! And this is a real throwback case. 1977 accident. Total permanent disability established in 1991. That same year, the carrier agreed to...more
The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs, comprising the European Banking Authority, European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and the European Securities and Markets Authority) has published a final report...more
In this episode of Employment and Benefits Unpacked, hosts Reginald Goeke, Rick Nowak, and Stephanie Vasconcellos examine several recent ERISA class actions asserting novel challenges to employer voluntary benefit programs...more
In a favorable decision for policyholders, on January 5, 2026, the Delaware Superior Court held that a Civil Investigative Demand (“CID”) issued by the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) met the definition of a “Claim” (not merely...more
The path settlement funds take from a defendant to a personal injury plaintiff can radically change how much the plaintiff keeps. Often, slowing settlement negotiations to plan that path, or convince defendants to cooperate,...more
Morrison Foerster’s State and Local Government Task Force is pleased to provide our quarterly newsletter summarizing some of the most important and interesting developments from state attorneys general (“State AGs”) across...more
In October, the American Council of Life Insurers annual meeting featured a panel titled “Crypto, Life Insurance, and Regulation: The Next Frontier in Financial Innovation.” The panelists, including the author of this...more
BaFin announced that it has launched a new survey on cum/cum transactions, following surveys in 2017, 2020 and 2021. The survey is aimed at the majority of German credit institutions, selected investment institutions and...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is fundamentally changing how it classifies and pays for most skin substitutes. On October 31, CMS announced policy changes for skin substitute Medicare payments,...more
For many years, employers and benefits professionals have treated voluntary benefits such as accident, critical illness, cancer, and hospital indemnity insurance, as a relatively low-risk corner of the benefits landscape....more
Welcome to our latest update, in which we cover: Value for money (VFM): consultation Pensions Dashboards Programme (PDP): consultation on the delivery of private sector dashboards Pension Protection Fund (PPF): FAQs about...more
In recent years, climate change litigation has begun to impact an increasingly diverse range of businesses and their directors and officers. This trend has been highlighted in The Grantham Research Institute’s 2025 Report on...more
In the world of insurance valuation disputes, the selection of the appraiser and umpire can significantly influence the outcome of an appraisal....more