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The United States Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury (collectively, the Departments) recently issued the 2025 MHPAEA Report to Congress (the Report), summarizing enforcement activity related to...more
Congress returns from a one-week recess, with most focus on advancing reconciliation 2.0. Before leaving for recess, House Republicans passed the reconciliation 2.0 budget resolution, and the Senate this week will begin...more
Money fuels settlements. Oftentimes, the person with control over the purse is an insurance professional, not an attorney or a party. While attorneys typically recommend and hire mediators, insurance professionals ultimately...more
Topics include: - Public Interest Law - The MMPA: Pleadings, Practices & Pitfalls - Bad Faith Insurance Risk: Case Law Update - Effective Use of Electronically Stored Information During Trial - Creativity and...more
The Tennessee Court of Appeals’ recent decision in Margaret Daniel et al. v. Rick’s Barbeque, Inc., et al. serves as a reminder that some premises liability claims can, and should, be resolved as a matter of law. In affirming...more
Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Market Regulation and Consumer Affairs (D) Committee appointed the Market Conduct Regulation Modernization (D) Working Group and adopted its charges at the 2026...more
Building on FAQs Part 72 released last fall, on May 10, the Departments of Labor, Treasury, and Health and Human Services announced proposed regulations outlining a path for employers to offer fertility coverage as a limited...more
Join partner David Harris and attorney Carter Overbey for an informative presentation that will provide a cross-country review of Assault & Battery Exclusions and the different methods by which courts interpret the exclusion,...more
After the Life Insurance and Annuities Illustrations (A) Working Group dissected annuity illustrations, it reported its findings to the A Committee. The working group discovered that the use of high illustrated rates and the...more
On May 8, 2026, Tennessee became the first plaintiff state to reach a proposed settlement in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al. v. Mariner Finance, LLC, No. 2:22-cv-03253-KBH (E.D. Pa.), the multistate enforcement action...more
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has triggered a global jet fuel crisis that is putting heavy strain on the airline industry and causing cancelled flights, longer detours, and rising fares. Legal and business consequences...more
Banks, insurers and financial intermediaries are not newcomers to algorithmic decision making. Credit scoring models have been in production for decades, and actuarial pricing has long relied on statistical inference. The EU...more
On April 30, 2026, the NAIC Life Risk-Based Capital (E) Working Group (“Life RBC WG”) voted to reduce the C‑1 risk-based capital (“RBC”) factor from 1.75% to 0.68% when life insurers invest in performing residential mortgage...more
SEKLE WISSEH, Plaintiff, v. PROGRESSIVE DIRECT INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant, Slip Copy, 2026 WL 736762. On March 15, 2025, Sekle Wisseh was struck and injured by another car while at a red light in Philadelphia. He sought...more
Two recent federal appellate decisions – one from the Second Circuit, one from the Ninth – will be useful tools for policyholders pursuing coverage for environmental liabilities under both legacy and current liability...more
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Review Council finally held its long-awaited final public meeting and formally released its Final Report. This Report is a set of recommendations that, if implemented, would...more
With the recently announced healthcare reform, the German Federal Government intends, for the first time, to codify the concept of so-called partial incapacity for work. Should the draft legislation be enacted in its current...more
Welcome to the latest issue of Insurance Insights, a gathering of notable legal developments and trends relevant to the insurance industry. In this issue, we cover five things to know about artificial intelligence, an...more
A Canadian Study published on-line in January 2026 by the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA Network Open, finds that a history of prior concussion is associated with a 15% increase in the risk of long-term...more
On April 8, 2026, the Japanese Financial Services Agency (JFSA) published a proposed amendment to its Comprehensive Guidelines for Supervision of Insurance Companies, adding new provisions specifically targeting reinsurance....more
On May 1, 2026, CMS published three interconnected Federal Register notices that set the stage for how Medicare will price clinical laboratory tests in calendar year 2027. They announce the rechartering and new membership of...more
Since our March 2, 2026 Legal Update, NAIC Working Group Receives Progress Report from the American Academy of Actuaries on RBC for CLOs, the NAIC Risk-Based Capital Investment Risk and Evaluation (E) Working Group (the “RBC...more
A recent motorcycle fatality on Churchmans Road in Newark underscores why serious Delaware crash investigations require careful evidence review before conclusions about fault are reached....more
This is the first installment of a new insurance claims-focused series within Defending the Algorithm™, written and edited by Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Insurance and Commercial Litigation Attorney Christopher M. Jacobs, Esq.,...more
After the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Annuity Suitability (A) Working Group published its 2025 technical report, aimed at insurers, on “Annuity Best Interest Regulatory Guidance and...more