The Standard Formula Podcast | Insurers in Difficulty: Staying Compliant Under Solvency II
The Chartwell Chronicles: Artificial Intelligence
Best Practices for Negotiating Manuscript Exclusions
AGG Talks: Healthcare Insights Podcast - Episode 4: What to Do When Insurance Companies Deny Behavioral Health Claims
Flood Basics still causing pain for some
The Standard Formula Podcast | Using an Internal Model to Calculate the Solvency Capital Requirement
The Standard Formula Podcast | Dissecting the Solvency Capital Requirement
AGG Talks: Healthcare Insights - Episode 1: A Primer for Providers When Insurance Companies Refuse to Pay
The Standard Formula Podcast | Solvency II Back to Basics: Technical Provisions
D&O Insurance Myths (Part 2)
Hinshaw Insurance Law TV | Bad Faith Law
The Standard Formula Podcast | Investment Rules for Insurers and Reinsurers
D&O Insurance Myths (Part 1)
Maximizing Commercial Property Insurance in a Hardening Market
2024 “Insurance” New Year’s Resolutions
Policyholder Beware: Insured-Insurer Communications May Not Be Privileged
Three Negotiation Tips for Policy Renewal
Does Your Insurance Cover Your Tracking Tools?
Video: Braidwood v. Becerra – Challenging the Affordable Care Act’s Preventive Services Coverage Provision – Thought Leaders in Health Law
The Standard Formula Podcast | Understanding the UK’s Matching Adjustment Regime
The Internal Revenue Service recently announced its cost-of-living adjustments applicable to dollar limitations on benefits and contributions for retirement plans generally effective for Tax Year 2025 (see IRS Notice...more
On September 29, 2024, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill (SB) No. 729 into law, expanding fertility insurance coverage in California. This historic measure marks a significant shift in reproductive health policy and...more
On Friday, November 1, the IRS announced the retirement plan limits that will take effect on January 1, 2025. Most notably, the annual contribution limit for participants in 401(k), 403(b), and governmental 457 plans was...more
Introduction: Substantial Structural Damage and Its Impact on Building Repairs - Substantial structural damage (SSD) is a defined term within the International Code Council (ICC) building code library, which assesses the...more
Simply including a requirement in a contract to add certain parties as additional insureds under a commercial general liability insurance (CGL) policy may not be enough to ensure such coverage is provided in New York. In New...more
Over the past two years, federal and state government agencies have moved to regulate the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in the healthcare setting, including in the utilization management (UM) and prior...more
Just as the oilfield fuels the modern economy, master service agreements (MSAs) fuel the modern oilfield. But while almost every MSA contains indemnity and insurance clauses, experienced oilfield lawyers will advise their...more
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Employer-sponsored health plans would be required to cover over-the-counter contraception, including condoms and emergency contraception, without a prescription and without cost sharing under newly proposed Affordable Care...more
If you don’t recall, NAFSMA is the National Association of Flood and Stormwater Management Agencies, and I am attending NAFSMA’s 46th annual conference in Colorado Springs, Colorado....more
Weaver Warehouse, LLC v. Gottschalk, et al., 2024 WL 1326499 (Pa. Super. Mar. 28, 2024) - Weaver Warehouse sought $3 million in builder’s risk insurance and $2.6 million in existing structure coverage for property...more
Security First Insurance Company v. Linda Visca and Silvio Visca, No. 4D2023-0961, June 5, 2024 - On February 20, 2020, the defendant was notified of the plaintiffs’ September 10, 2017, Hurricane Irma claim. The policy stated...more
On October 21, the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and the Treasury (the Departments) issued a proposed rule on permissible utilization management techniques for preventive services and the required...more
Executive summary - The shift towards value-based care (VBC) has led to a reimagining of the traditional definition of health care delivery—including what types of services are delivered, how those services are delivered,...more
In an effort to streamline payment of Pennsylvania workers’ compensation wage loss benefits, Governor Shapiro signed Senate Bill 1232 into law on October 29, 2024. Senate Bill 1232 amends Section 308 of the Pennsylvania...more
A recent OIG report found that diagnoses reported in 2022 Medicare Advantage (MA) encounter data based only on health risk assessments (HRA) and HRA-linked chart reviews resulted in CMS making additional risk-adjusted...more
In September 2024, the U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury (collectively, “the Departments”) released final rules to strengthen the enforcement of the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental...more
In New York State, the Health Insurance Matching Program – widely known as HIMP – provides means for a claimant’s private health insurer to seek reimbursement for treatment they believe a workers’ compensation carrier or...more
It’s been a year since the SEC’s compensation clawback rules took effect. Since then, US-listed public companies have implemented compliant compensation clawback policies that require executive officers to pay back...more
On September 9th, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Labor, and the Department of the Treasury (collectively, the “Departments”) issued the much anticipated final rule under the Mental Health...more
Undertakings in difficulty, in the context of Solvency II, refers to insurers that are either failing or likely to fail to meet their solvency capital requirement (SCR) or their minimum capital requirement (MCR) (together,...more
As many policyholders are acutely aware, the insurance landscape is complex, with numerous insurers offering a wide range of available insurance programs. While some coverage forms are standard, many are unique to specific...more
Travelers Prop. & Cas. Corp. v. Chiquita Brands Internatl., Inc., 2024-Ohio-1775 - Several insurers sought a declaration that they were not obligated to indemnify the defendant when it resolved underlying claims alleging...more
Yarborough v. Erie Inspection Servs., Inc., 2024-Ohio-1712 - The plaintiff was a real estate agent who was injured when she fell through an open inspection panel in the floor of a bathroom at a house that she had listed. She...more
In Myers v. Alfa Mut. Ins. Co., No. CL-2024-0010, 2024 Ala. Civ. App. LEXIS 119, the Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama (Appeals Court) issued a per curium opinion addressing whether the trial court properly awarded damages...more