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
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
Over the past year, Canada’s federal and provincial governments have accelerated efforts to dismantle interprovincial labour‑mobility barriers. A key focus is enabling certified professionals, such as insurance advisors,...more
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
2025 certainly was a busy year in the regulatory world, with a slew of new regulations, models, and initiatives. Even so, the Trump administration still has a long regulatory (and deregulatory) “to-do” list for 2026 –...more
In a win for Wiley’s client, the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming, applying Wyoming law, held that an insured versus insured (“IvI”) exclusion barred coverage for an entire class action proceeding...more
On December 23, 2025, three federal agencies released a proposed rule to make costs more transparent in health plans. The proposal aligns with an executive order that President Donald Trump issued in February 2025 to enforce...more
On 9 December 2025, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published on its website a set of seven consultation papers to support the implementation of the Insurance Recovery and Resolution...more
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), enacted in July 2025, is no longer a policy debate or a future concern. It is already changing how coverage works, how Medicaid dollars flow, and how much operational friction health...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 (available here). As a result,...more
On 19 September 2025, the Hong Kong Insurance Authority (Insurance Authority) issued a revised Guideline 34 on Governance and Management of Fund(s) of Participating Business (GL34), setting out expectations for sound and...more
As artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes the insurance landscape, insurers face a growing tension between automation and accountability. While AI offers unprecedented speed and efficiency in claims processing, it also...more
In this crossover episode of Payments Pros and The Consumer Finance Podcast, guest host Taylor Gess dives into the rapidly evolving world of point-of-sale financing for medical and dental procedures with Troutman Pepper Locke...more