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Court Bars Coverage for Late Notice and Pre-Notice Repairs

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In Global Approach, Inc. v. Scottsdale Insurance Co., 2026 WL 1513430 (S.D. Fla. June 1, 2026), the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida granted summary judgment to the insurer, holding that the...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Insights for Insurers

New York’s Sweeping Motor Vehicle Tort Law Reforms: More Than Meets the Eye

Effective for all actions commenced on or after May 26, 2026, Assembly Bill A10008 enacts sweeping changes to New York’s motor vehicle tort law. While broadly characterized as pro-defendant, these reforms present a more...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Non-Network Plans May Be on the ACA Exchanges: What the Final 2027 Payment Notice Means for Health Plans and Providers

On May 15, 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final 2027 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters (the “NBPP” or “final rule”), which establishes a notable structural change to the Affordable...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

If You’re Buying SpaceX, Can You Insure the Elon Musk Risk?

The forthcoming SpaceX initial public offering presents an unusual opportunity to examine an underexplored corner of insurance law. Under Texas law, which governs as the jurisdiction of Elon Musk’s domicile, every investor...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Federal Agencies Propose New “Excepted Benefits” Category for Fertility Coverage

On May 10, 2026, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury (the “Departments”) jointly proposed a rule that would create a new category of “excepted fertility benefits” under federal law (the “Proposed...more

Phelps Dunbar

Eleventh Circuit Won’t Hear Georgia Sex Trafficking Coverage Dispute Without Final Judgment From District Court

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit recently declined to hear an insurer’s appeal of a Georgia federal court’s decision on the insurer’s duty to defend its insured against a sex-trafficking suit in...more

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Investigations Newsletter: New DOJ Health Care Fraud Unit Secures Six Trial Convictions Totaling Over $1.1 Billion

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New DOJ Health Care Fraud Unit Secures Six Trial Convictions Totaling Over $1.1 Billion - The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on June 4 that the National Fraud Enforcement Division’s Health Care Fraud Unit secured...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

FinReg Monthly Update - May 2026

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Welcome to the FinReg Monthly Update, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK, EU and international financial services regulation....more

Tyson & Mendes LLP

Tort Reform Is Not Strategy: What Claims Teams Must Change Now, Not Tomorrow

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While sometimes considered political rhetoric, tort reform is real. However, it is slow and far from uniform across jurisdictions. In recent years, some state legislatures across the country have continued to plug away at...more

Stinson LLP

Minnesota Court of Appeals Holds that an Insurer's Reservation of Rights Can Entitle an Insured to Select Independent Counsel

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On June 1, 2026, the Minnesota Court of Appeals issued a decision in Fabyanske, Westra, Hart & Thomson, P.A. v. Western National Mutual Insurance Company, in which the court held that a conflict of interest on the part of...more

Alston & Bird

Health Care Week in Review | CMS Releases Interim Final Rule on Medicaid Work Requirements; House Appropriations Subcommittee...

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Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

YellowKey Zero-Day and the BitLocker Bypass: Compliance and Incident Response Implications

A publicly disclosed and widely unpatched zero-day vulnerability, named YellowKey, permits anyone with physical access to a device running Windows 11 or Windows Server 2022/2025 to bypass BitLocker full-disk encryption...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Federal IDR Process Overhaul Finalized: What Stakeholders Need to Know

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The U.S. Departments of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services (the Departments), along with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, issued a final rule on May 28, 2026, implementing several modifications to the...more

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The Hidden Half: Understanding Consumers Who Aren’t Buying

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In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Blockbuster Video was the dominant competitor in the home video rental market, with a valuation at nearly $3 billion. Unfortunately, the company made a mistake in its market research: it...more

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Tenth Circuit Affirms Statutory Disclosure Penalty for Insurer Who Failed to Produce Copies of Automotive Policies for Vehicles...

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In Fogel v. Shelter Mutual Insurance Co., the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a summary judgment ruling finding that an insurer violated Colorado’s statutory insurance disclosure law by responding to a policy...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

NY’s New Motor Vehicle Accident Amendment a Win for Insurers

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New York’s comparative fault system and a broad serious injury threshold have made motor vehicle accident claims difficult and expensive to defend. Our current system, combined with staged accidents, manufactured injuries and...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

HUD issues RFI on streamlining FHA single-family minimum property requirements

On May 29, HUD issued a request for information (RFI) in the Federal Register, seeking public comment on modernizing FHA’s Minimum Property Requirements (MPRs) for single-family mortgage insurance programs. MPRs require that...more

Jones Day

New Rule Amends No Surprises Act Dispute Process for Out-of-Network Health Care Payments

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On May 28, 2026, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury finalized a rule implementing changes to the No Surprises Act's independent dispute resolution process, including new standardized...more

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Avoid a Clash over Cash: The Perks of Defining Actual Cash Value in a Policy

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Picture if you will a quiet Texas home. It’s unremarkable, cozy, and most importantly for the purposes of this article, insured. All is well at this humble domicile until disaster strikes in one of the many forms that the...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

FDIC OIG releases report reviewing January failure of Illinois state-chartered bank

On June 1, the FDIC OIG published a report containing findings from its review of a state-chartered bank in Chicago that, as previously covered by InfoBytes, was closed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional...more

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OIG Focuses on Prevention in New Medicare Advantage Risk Adjustment Report

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) continues to focus on Medicare Advantage (MA) risk adjustment payments, issuing a report this week detailing its audit of MA risk adjustment payments based on acute stroke diagnosis...more

Saul Ewing LLP

The Friday Five: Five ERISA Litigation Highlights - June 2026

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This month’s Friday Five explores the linear relationship between the information that must be exchanged between a claimant and a claims administrator and a court’s subsequent determination of a dispute between the two. The...more

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Driverless Vehicles on British Roads: Operating Under the Self-Driving Pilot Scheme

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The United Kingdom has opened the road to driverless commercial pilots. On 31 March 2026, the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles ("CCAV") and the Department for Transport ("DfT") published guidance on the...more

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AI Governance Expectations on the Rise for Insurers Amid New Regulatory Activity: NYDFS Highlights Frontier Risks, Colorado...

Insurance companies should treat recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI), privacy, and cybersecurity regulation as more than just policy signals. Regulators are moving toward examination-ready expectations for...more

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DOJ Announces Accelerated Review and Enhanced Enforcement in Benefits Fraud Matters

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Following a trend among federal agencies to crack down on alleged fraud in taxpayer-funded federal programs, the Department of Justice ("DOJ") Civil Division announced reforms that aim to leverage a whole-of-government...more

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