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2025 Trends in P&C Insurance: Technology, Competition and Innovation

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The U.S. P&C insurance industry is in the midst of profound transformation in 2025, driven largely by rapid technological advancement and evolving risk dynamics. According to Kelly King, a seasoned expert with over 30 years...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Federal Court Permits MultiPlan Antitrust MDL to Proceed: Court Upholds Federal and State Antitrust and Consumer Protection...

On June 3, 2025, Judge Matthew F. Kennelly of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued a sweeping ruling in In re MultiPlan Health Insurance Provider Litigation, largely denying motions to dismiss...more

Cooley LLP

UK Civil Justice Council Publishes Review of Litigation Funding

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The Civil Justice Council (CJC) has published its highly anticipated final report on the regulation and development of litigation funding in England and Wales. This comprehensive report addresses the implications of the UK...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

A Deep Dive Into Intermediary Remuneration as the UK Supreme Court Considers Its Legality

Is payment to an intermediary, not by its client but by the financial service provider, an illegal inducement or a legitimate distribution cost? In Hopcraft, the UK Supreme Court will consider this perennial question. The...more

Hogan Lovells

UK PRA Business Plan 2025/26: Priorities evolving towards increasing emphasis on competitiveness and growth

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The PRA has published its Business Plan for 2025/26, setting out the workplan for each of its strategic priorities and strategy to advance its primary and secondary objectives. The PRA comments that, alongside its continual...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

The Health Record - Healthcare Law Insights, V 2, Issue 3, March 2025

Welcome to our third issue of 2025 of The Health Record -- our healthcare law insights e-newsletter. In this edition, we look at the possible expiration of telehealth flexibilities for Medicare patients, the potential...more

Fennemore

Regulatory Landscape of Insurance Claims Denial Practices and Suggestions for a Path Forward to a Sustainable Healthcare Future

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In the wake of the December 4, 2024 fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO Brian Thompson, questions were raised about insurance claim denial practices. Several news outlets noted that UnitedHealth Group’s profits have been...more

Mayer Brown

Evolving Competitor Definitions in Fund Finance

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Recent developments in fund finance documentation reflect a significant shift in how insurance companies are treated under assignment provisions. Traditionally, “competitor” definitions have served to restrict loan...more

Jenner & Block

Client Alert: Insuring Against Recent Trend of Antitrust Actions Targeting Pricing Algorithms

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Following a 2022 ProPublica article reporting on the use of a third-party software to inflate rents in “a new kind of cartel,” a new wave of antitrust enforcement and class actions targets companies using pricing algorithms,...more

K&L Gates LLP

Brussels Regulatory Brief: Winter 2023-2024

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Antitrust and Competition - The European Court of Justice Held Rules Set by Sports Governing Bodies Must Comply With EU Competition Law - On 21 December 2023, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) held in a preliminary ruling...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

2024 Insights: Corporate Trends

Global M&A Activity Endures Headwinds in 2023 and Displays Resilience Going Into 2024 - Despite market headwinds, dealmakers have looked to carveouts, spin-offs, joint ventures and other creative deal structures to engage...more

White & Case LLP

Kazakhstan has reformed the financial sector regulation: what do we need to know?

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Legislative regulation of the financial market in Kazakhstan needs to be modernized to remain efficient and competitive. Therefore, on 12 July 2022, the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan signed the Law providing for...more

Hogan Lovells

Actualités Législatives et Réglementaires – Mai 2022

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Le bureau Parisien de Hogan Lovells a le plaisir de vous adresser sa lettre d'information mensuelle qui vous présente les Actualités législatives et réglementaires du mois de mai 2022. Ces Actualités législatives et...more

Benesch

Are Non-Compete Covenants Likely to Become Unenforceable after the Issuance of the Biden Administration’s Executive Order? Don’t...

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On July 9, 2021, President Biden signed a sweeping Executive Order (“EO”) intended to promote competition in a number of sectors of the economy, including healthcare. The EO targets 4 areas of healthcare in particular -...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Overview of President Biden’s Non-Compete Agreement Executive Order 

On July 9, 2021, President Biden signed the Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy. The Order, breathtaking in scope, asserts as a key goal the desire to improve the lives of consumers through...more

A&O Shearman

Top UK finance litigation and contract law developments from 2020

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This is a round-up of the most interesting finance litigation and contractual developments in 2020. The selection is necessarily subjective and draws from a wide range of cases and developments that are of direct relevance to...more

Cooley LLP

Alert: Brexit Readiness: Possible Key Impacts of the Conclusion of the Transition Period on 31 December 2020

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On 31 January 2020, the UK left the European Union and entered a transition period that is due to end at 11:00 pm GMT on 31 December 2020. At this point, it is still uncertain whether a new EU/UK deal will be reached. To...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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Amazon announced yesterday that it will immediately raise the minimum wage it pays to all 250,000 of its employees (and the 100k it plans to hire for the holiday season) to at least $15/hour, more than double the current...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

DOJ Antitrust Division Grants Approval to Proposed Cigna/Express Scripts Merger

On September 17, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division issued a “closing statement” in which it announced that it was closing its investigation into Cigna’s proposed acquisition of Express Scripts,...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Health Care Industry Vertical Transactions: Expect Intensified Antitrust Reviews Despite Recent Government Setback

While federal officials have stated their intent to persist in questioning vertical relationships that they hypothesize cause downstream economic effects on product flow and prices, a recent loss by the Department of Justice...more

Hogan Lovells

French legal and regulatory update – February 2018

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The Paris office of Hogan Lovells is pleased to provide this English language edition of our monthly e - newsletter, which offers a legal and regulatory update covering France and Europe for February 2018. ...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Recent Conference Highlights Cyber Risks and How to Protect Against the Same

On February 13-14, 2018, Advisen held a conference focused on exploring cyber risks and how companies can best move to address potential exposures. Below are key takeaways and trends discussed by the panelists....more

Hogan Lovells

Antitrust, Competition and Economic Regulation Quarterly Newsletter - Autumn 2017

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First come, first served. That’s not the principle behind the clearance of Bitcoin transactions. Equally for other blockchain technology networks, the relevant factor to get a transaction on the next available block is not...more

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French Legal and Regulatory Update – October 2017

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The Paris office of Hogan Lovells is pleased to provide this English language edition of our monthly e-newsletter, which offers a legal and regulatory update covering France and Europe for October 2017. ...more

Jones Day

UK Launches Antitrust Review of the Wholesale Insurance Broker Market

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The Situation: The UK Financial Conduct Authority has launched a market study into whether competition works well in the insurance broker market. The Impact: The FCA has begun a fact-finding review into the role of...more

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