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
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The NAIC Statutory Accounting Principles (E) Working Group has adopted a revised version of Item 2025-13, amending Statement of Statutory Accounting Principles (“SSAP”) No. 37—Mortgage Loans to allow residential mortgage...more
In the context of third-party liability claims, a familiar arrangement arises when an insurer retains defense counsel for its insured: the tripartite relationship among the insured, the insurer, and defense counsel. While...more
A recent Ninth Circuit decision held that both named and unnamed class members in a class seeking monetary damages must come forward with sufficient evidence of Article III standing at the summary judgment stage—not merely at...more
The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have published consultation paper CP1/26, proposing a management expenses levy limit (MELL) of GBP113 million for the UK Financial...more
In a win for Wiley’s client, the United State Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, applying Maryland law, reversed judgment on the pleadings in favor of the insured, holding that a securities class action, derivative...more
This coming year will be an encore performance for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ cybersecurity and privacy protections working groups. After remixing in June 2024, when the Privacy Protections (H)...more
The New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) implemented the final phases of amendments to its NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation (23 NYCRR Part 500) in May and November....more
This is the second in a series of discussions about insurance issues unique to the Lone Star State. Both bankruptcy and the ability for a policyholder to assign its first-party, bad-faith claim against its insurer can be...more
Throughout 2025, Congress introduced several bills related to the pharmacy benefit management (PBM) industry. As with the 118th Congress in 2024 (see The Focus of Federal Proposals on Pharmacy Benefit Management – 118th...more
In an attempt to modernize benefits, Alabama has taken the bold step of being the first state to enact legislation allowing independent contractors to build portable benefit coverage. Traditionally, employee sponsored...more
This week, President Trump called on Congress to pass legislation to implement “The Great Healthcare Plan," which includes reforms to lower drug prices and insurance premiums, and HHS reinstated $2 billion in mental health...more
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A new trend in Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) class actions is targeting employers and benefits consultants over voluntary benefit programs, such as accident, critical illness, cancer and hospital...more
Negotiations on APTCs hit speed bump. The release of a Senate bipartisan compromise on the Affordable Care Act enhanced advanced premium tax credits (APTCs) was delayed amid ongoing discussions....more
On January 14, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that five Kaiser Permanente affiliates agreed to pay $556 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by submitting unsupported...more
On January 14, Maryland’s attorney general announced that the state’s Consumer Protection Division (CPD) entered into a settlement resolving allegations that several joint venture title agency companies formed between a title...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. As a result, within the Fifth...more
The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) has embarked on a robust transformation of the Medi-Cal program aimed at improving healthcare quality, access, and equity for members. These priorities have been...more
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