Home State Definition — Surplus Lines 360
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The Standard Formula Podcast | South Korea in Focus: Analyzing One of Asia’s Most Dynamic Insurance Markets
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Financial Responsibility in the Surplus Lines Market — Surplus Lines 360
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Demystifying Surplus Lines Group Insurance — Surplus Lines 360
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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
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Introducing Surplus Lines 360
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Agentic AI holds as much promise as it does risk. Frontier models are becoming more and more powerful. In fact, on April 7, Anthropic published a 245-page system card for Claude Mythos Preview, a frontier AI model that the...more
Welcome to the 26th edition of the Troutman Pepper Locke LLP Excess and Surplus Lines Law Manual. Updated for 2026, this edition reflects all of the pertinent changes in the surplus lines laws and regulations of the 50 states...more
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its 2026 Spring National Meeting from March 22-25 in San Diego, California. As has become the norm, a number of relevant NAIC working groups and task forces met...more
As artificial intelligence (“AI”) continues to be deployed in new use cases, state legislatures are considering measures to oversee its use in health insurance, particularly in prior authorization and utilization review. Last...more
Second Department Finds Absolute Lead Exclusion Properly Added To Policy And Excludes Coverage For Action Alleging Injury From Lead Exposure- The owner of a residential building in Brooklyn engaged an insurance broker to...more
Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) play a significant role in managing prescription drug benefits by establishing pharmacy networks, negotiating rebates with drug manufacturers, developing drug formularies, and processing...more
On March 19, 2026, the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ("OCC"), and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC") proposed revisions to the standardized approach for risk-weighted assets...more
In recent years, employers have increasingly allowed insurance companies to offer certain types of insurance (such as accident, specified disease, or critical illness insurance) for purchase by their employees at the...more
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia held that a lawyers’ professional liability insurer owed no duty to defend or indemnify an attorney against trade‑secret and conspiracy claims because the...more
In GEICO v. Patel, 166 F.4th 280 (2d Cir. 2026), the Second Circuit confronted a (now‑recurring) question at the intersection of federal RICO claims and New York’s no-fault insurance regime: when may a federal court halt...more
On 31 March 2026, the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) published its report on the second Targeted Jurisdictional Assessment (2025 TJA), evaluating the implementation of the holistic framework for the...more
The regional conflict in the Middle East, which began in late February 2026, led to significant volatility in global oil prices. Hostilities have disrupted key oil trade routes and increased risks to critical energy...more
A fatal bicycle crash in Laurel is under investigation by Delaware State Police following an incident on April 19, 2026, on Shiloh Church Road. According to police, a bicyclist traveling westbound was struck by a Ford...more
On April 20, 2026, California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara submitted the final rulemaking package for the Intervenor and Administrative Hearing Bureau (AHB) Fairness and Accountability regulations (REG-2025-00006) to...more
Below, you will find a recap and key takeaways. Digital assets and blockchain are here to stay, and insurance carriers are eager to provide coverage to these emerging industries....more
The U.S. Congress remains in session with healthcare activity continuing to center on budget oversight and committee hearings. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is scheduled to...more
News Briefs - States Step in to Oversee, Regulate Healthcare - They say that nature abhors a vacuum, and, apparently, U.S. healthcare doesn't care for one much, either. Because in the absence of federal legislation and...more
In the insurance industry, insurers often maintain split files for complex liability claims as an administrative control that enables their defense of an insured(s) while simultaneously investigating coverage issues. While...more
As private M&A deal terms continue to shift, understanding what’s “market” has become increasingly important when negotiating transactions. We reviewed key data points drawn from publicly available acquisition agreements...more
The European Commission (EC) has adopted a Delegated Regulation supplementing the Capital Requirements Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR), as amended by the CRR3. It sets out regulatory technical standards (RTS) specifying...more
At this time, the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board requires all Request for Further Action by Insurer/Employer forms (Form RFA-2) be submitted electronically via eCase – paper RFA-2 forms are no longer accepted or...more
Le 7 avril 2026, l’Autorité des marchés financiers (l’« AMF ») a publié la version définitive de sa Ligne directrice sur l’utilisation de l’intelligence artificielle (la « Ligne directrice »), suite à la consultation publique...more
Businesses integrating generative Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) into their operations should take note of a significant shift in the insurance landscape. The Insurance Services Office (“ISO”) has a new optional endorsement...more
On April 14, 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its annual proposed rule for the federal fiscal year (FFY) 2027 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and long-term care hospital (LTCH)...more
After three appearances at congressional committees last week, US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kennedy will testify in front of four additional committees this week....more