The Road to Regulation: Vehicle Service Contracts Explained — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
AI Today in 5: August 11, 2025, The ACHILLES Project Episode
AI Today in 5: August 8, 2025, The Don’t Wait Episode
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 244: The Future of Independent Physician Practices with Ray Waldrup of The Leaders Rheum
Innovation in Compliance: Integrating AI in Compliance and Risk Management with Jana Brost
The Standard Formula Podcast | Assessing Prudential Solvency Regimes in the Middle East
Innovation in Compliance: Exploring the Intersection of Compliance, Technology, and AI with Ben Sperry
Innovation in Compliance: Strategic Compliance in Regulated Industries with Kerri Reuter
The Standard Formula Podcast | Assessing Prudential Insurance Regulation in Japan
The Standard Formula Podcast | Unpacking the IAIS’ Adoption of the Insurance Capital Standard
AI Talk With Juliana Neelbauer - Episode Three - Cybersecurity Insurance: Coverage Challenges and Changes
AGG Talks: Healthcare Insights Podcast - Episode 7: National MultiPlan Litigation: A Guide for Healthcare Providers
Loading and Unloading Under GL and Auto Policies: 2024
The Duty to Cooperate Under a Liability Policy
AI Talk With Juliana Neelbauer - Episode Two - Cybersecurity Insurance: The New Frontier of Risk Management
On-Demand Webinar: Bring Predictability to the Spiraling Cost of Cyber Incident Response Data Mining
The Standard Formula Podcast | The SFCR and Other Public Reporting: A Solvency II Cornerstone
The Standard Formula Podcast | Insurers in Difficulty: Staying Compliant Under Solvency II
Flood Basics still causing pain for some
The Standard Formula Podcast | Using an Internal Model to Calculate the Solvency Capital Requirement
How Southern California Wildfires Impact Air Quality, Smoke Damage, and Insurance Coverage - The Southern California wildfires in January 2025 are expected to be one of the costliest natural disasters in United States (US)...more
What You Need to Know in a Minute or Less - As the scientific and regulatory landscape surrounding various emerging contaminants shifts, so too do the options that companies can consider taking to minimize and insure against...more
It is instructive to review the Supreme Court’s record in its most recent term, concentrating on regulatory and administrative law cases, which are usually back-burner issues. But not this term....more
In what was likely a shock to coal-fired electric utilities, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit held on June 28, 2024, that proposed decisions by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in January...more
Paraco Gas Corporation purchased an insurance policy for Directors, Officers and Private Company Liability (“D&O”) from Ironshore Indemnity, Inc. that covered certain acts of Paraco’s officers and directors. Paraco...more
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on May 8, 2024 expanded the obligations of coal-fired power plants to remediate coal ash-related groundwater impacts with amendments to the federal Coal Combustion Residual (CCR)...more
Commercial property policies typically include a wide range of coverage extensions, including “contingent” coverages that apply even when the policyholder’s own property is not physically damaged. Even if you have not yet...more
The Court of Appeals of South Carolina (“Court”) addressed in a January 3rd opinion an insurance coverage issue associated with a claim related to polychlorinated biphenyls (“PCBs”) deposited by a third party into a...more
As 2024 rapidly approaches, we look back at some of the key decisions, trends, and developments impacting the U.S. insurance industry in 2023 and look ahead at some trends and cases to watch in 2024. Insurers continue to...more
Here’s what we discuss in our October Insurance Update. Illinois: Environmental Suits Alleging Non-Compliance with Laws and Regulations Did Not Assert an “Occurrence”- Massachusetts (federal): Insurer May Consider Sums...more
Companies operating in the food and beverage industry are dealing with PFAS-related issues on a daily basis. So far, twelve states have passed legislation regulating PFAS, and each of those twelve states explicitly targets...more
Per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) represent major exposures to insurers and their policyholders. Thousands of lawsuits are pending nationwide and several large settlements have already been reached. Insurers are...more
The United States District Court (M.D. Florida) (“Court”) addressed in a June 23rd Order an insurance coverage issue involving a petroleum release from an underground storage tank (“UST”). See L. Squared Industries, Inc. v....more
After a brief abatement due to pandemic-related litigation delays and court closures, social inflation returned with a vengeance replete with numerous nuclear jury verdicts. Although a case in any state is capable of...more
Since mid-2022, North Carolina, California, Wisconsin and Illinois each have sued primary and secondary manufacturers of PFAS and PFAS-containing products for alleged environmental damage caused by the distribution of their...more
Gone are the days of pulling into the corner gas station and running over a faded red hose to ring a bell, which in turn alerts the station owner, whose feet are sticking out from under a vehicle in the garage, that he has a...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a June 17th Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”) guidance memorandum (“Memo”) titled: Overseeing the Validity of Financial Assurance Mechanisms...more
We have written extensively about environmental, social, and governance ("ESG") otherwise known as sustainability, and its impact on insurers and their policyholders. We have pointed out how ESG has impacted insurers qua...more
The grip of the "all of government" approach to sustainability continues to tighten. Via a May 5, 2022 memorandum from the Associate Attorney General of the United States, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S....more
Early in 2021, we wrote about potential insurance implications that could arise from the then-new Biden Administration’s expected regulatory priorities. Among other things, we noted that heightened scrutiny on coal ash was...more
Cases discussed in our January Insurance Update answer these questions: •A commercial crime policy covers property that the insured “holds for others.” In the context of a phishing scheme, does “hold” mean the insured...more
In August, we provided an overview of the recent increase in regulatory and private litigation activity around per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), colloquially known as “forever chemicals,” and potential insurance...more
A key component of a company’s risk management function is to keep a close eye on new and developing sources of liability and to put in place appropriate insurance to respond in the event those liabilities ripen. In recent...more
The Biden administration has made it clear that they plan to vigorously enforce federal environmental laws using the full power of the EPA and Department of Justice. In this episode, Howard Tollin, President – Environmental &...more
The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced in a February 1st Federal Register Notice a Settlement Agreement (“Settlement Agreement”) involving the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and...more