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This chapter discusses prudential insurance regulation in Japan. Japan is the fourth-largest insurance market in the world, with a broad customer base and a varied range of offerings. This profile, coupled with ongoing...more
Host Rob Chaplin is joined by colleague Annabel Smethurst to guide “The Standard Formula” listeners through the prudential solvency regime in Japan, the fourth-largest insurance market in the world. They explore why Japan is...more
Key Points - - The IAIS has issued a detailed analysis of the structural shifts in the life insurance sector related to the increasing allocation to alternative assets and prevalence of asset-intensive reinsurance...more
The long-awaited Ministerial Decree regulating catastrophic risk insurance schemes implementing the related provisions under the 2024 Italian Budget Law has been recently published in the Italian official Gazette. Companies...more
The significant growth in life & annuity reinsurance in the Cayman Islands has showed no signs of slowing in the past few years and a material ingredient of this growth is Cayman reinsurers sponsored by large private equity /...more
In October 2024, the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) issued an updated Regulatory Policy on the Recognition and Approval of an Actuary (the “Policy”), setting out its minimum criteria and process for determining...more
On Dec. 13, 2024, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill integrating parametric insurance into the state’s existing legal framework for insurance products under the New York Insurance Law (“NYIL”). Assembly Bill A10344...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
The PRA has released an important statement on its approach to funded reinsurance. Our view is that the statement endorses the conceptual principle that funded reinsurance (particularly to offshore counterparties) should best...more
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 janvier 2024. Ces Actualités législatives et...more
In our latest installment of “The Standard Formula” podcast, partner Rob Chaplin and associate Ilianna Kotini discuss the proposals made in the Bermuda Monetary Authority's latest consultation paper, which are focused on the...more
As of March 11, the Securities Valuation Office of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has removed Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) from the list of approved banks (“qualified U.S. financial institutions,” or...more
The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) laid out its priorities for insurance supervision this year in a 10 January 2023 Priorities Letter. In this newsletter, we summarise the broad themes emerging from the Priorities...more
Financial services, including insurance and reinsurance (together, (re)insurance), have effectively been omitted from the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), resulting in arguably the “hardest” Brexit for any key UK...more
Insights from Latham’s flagship event: Managing the risk and promise of digitisation in financial services. In a bid to keep pace with rapid advances in cloud adoption across financial services, regulators have published a...more
The “Consumer Information Notification Requirement Act” (H.R. 6743) was passed out of the House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services one week after being introduced and is now headed to the floor for...more
Capitol Life Insurance Co. partially prevailed, and partially failed, its effort to overturn unfavorable grants of summary judgment in a recent dispute regarding an annuity policy written by Capitol....more
The U.K. Court of Appeal has held that an arbitration clause commonly found in London market excess of loss reinsurance treaties does not prohibit the appointment of insurance or reinsurance lawyers to an arbitration panel....more
In this putative class action, plaintiffs alleged unlawful practices related to mortgage insurance practices, including a violation of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 (“RESPA”). ...more
On November 7, 2017, the Commissioner of Insurance for the State of Wisconsin issued an order approving a new rule to be added to Section Ins. Ch. 52, Wis. Adm. Code. The rule is intended to modernize Wisconsin’s credit for...more
This past summer, the Texas legislature passed and the Governor signed a law that allows Texas insurers to negotiate reinsurance contracts with foreign reinsurers that do not require 100% collateral before the insurer can...more
In 2011, Top’s Personnel entered into a reinsurance agreement with Applied Underwriters Captive Risk Assurance Company (“AUCRA”), and several years later executed a promissory note (“the Note”) in favor of a related entity,...more
The District Court for the Northern District of Illinois dismissed a complaint filed by Plaintiff-Rehabilitator, the Illinois Director of Insurance, against Defendant-Reinsurer, Twin Rivers, alleging breach of contract,...more
We have rarely provided our opinions or market commentaries in our Reinsurance Focus posts, preferring instead to provide our readers hopefully balanced analyses of court opinions, legislation, and regulations affecting the...more
In Ludwick v. Harbinger Group, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed the dismissal under the McCarran-Ferguson Act of a federal RICO claim against Fidelity & Guaranty (and its owner and several affiliates)...more