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The Administrative Board of the Courts is seeking public comment on a proposal by the Commercial Division Advisory Council to amend the Commercial Division rules (22 NYCRR § 202.70) to clarify what types of insurance cases...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently signaled a retreat from its regulatory and enforcement posture by outlining its 2025 supervisory and enforcement priorities and rescinding 67 regulatory guidance documents. In...more
Pennsylvania House Bill 183 (HB 183) introduces substantial amendments to Section 306(c)(22) of the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act. If enacted, the proposed changes will have significant implications for injured...more
The complex and evolving AI regulatory landscape for insurers is again on the move. The Colorado Division of Insurance (the Division) has commenced the formal rulemaking process to amend and expand the reach of current...more
The New York State Executive Budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 proposes significant updates to the managed care organization (MCO) provider tax, aiming to enhance Medicaid funding through innovative financial strategies. The...more
DFS has developed a draft pre-proposal notice regarding proposed amendments to 11 NYCRR 52 (Insurance Regulation 62) which, if adopted, would amend the minimum standards for form, content, and sale of health insurance in New...more
1. “No re-export to Russia” clauses become mandatory for certain contracts within the EU - As of March 20, 2024, so-called “no re-export to Russia” clauses have become mandatory for certain types of contracts concluded by...more
On January 9, State of Georgia Representative Mandisha Thomas introduced HB 887 (the Bill), which amends certain provisions of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated to regulate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and...more
New York Senate Bill 4007 and Assembly Bill 3007, which represent Governor Kathy Hochul’s state budget proposal, include provisions to amend Article 77 of the New York Insurance Law, the Life Insurance Company Guaranty...more
On October 12th, the NAIC Life Insurance and Annuity (A) Committee’s Indexed Universal Life (IUL) Illustration (A) Subgroup (IUL Subgroup) exposed for comment four options to amend Actuarial Guideline (AG) 49-A to address a...more
On October 19, 2022, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Surplus Lines Working Group exposed proposed changes to the International Insurers Department (IID) Plan of Operation applicable to insurers...more
In December 2021, the Bermuda Monetary Authority (the “BMA”) issued a consultation paper proposing revisions to the Insurance Code of Conduct dated July 2015. On Friday, 28 August 2022 the BMA posted further and final...more
On Wednesday, June 22, the Senate Finance Committee advanced the Enhancing American Retirement Now (EARN) Act, including an amendment containing retiring Sen. Pat Toomey’s Long-Term Care Affordability Act. The Amendment would...more
At the beginning of 2022, New York state enacted the Comprehensive Insurance Disclosure Act (“CIDA”), imposing significant new burdens on defendants in civil ligation. We outlined the original provisions of the law in an...more
On December 31, 2021, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law the Comprehensive Insurance Disclosure Act, a sweeping reform to the disclosure obligations formerly required under CPLR 3101(f). As enacted, the Comprehensive...more
The New York State Senate Rules Committee recently approved Senate Bill S7882, and that amended bill is now waiting for formal presentation to both the Senate and the Assembly. If passed and signed by Governor Hochul, the...more
On December 31, 2021, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed the Comprehensive Insurance Disclosure Act (the Act). The Act amends CPLR 3101(f) and was ostensibly implemented to combat "delaying tactics" by defense counsel and...more
On December 31, 2021, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Comprehensive Insurance Disclosure Act (the “Act”) into law. The Act, which is effective immediately, modifies C.P.L.R. § 3101(f) to require that any defendant...more
UK regulators are considering how they can strengthen the regime to enhance standards and reduce risk. On 3 December 2021, the FCA published a Consultation Paper (CP21/34) on changes to its rules regarding the Appointed...more
In late November 2020, we published a high-level review of insurance regulatory developments relating to climate change, available here. In the six weeks since, regulators and industry participants on both sides of the...more
Advocates for healthcare patients, providers, payors and privacy professionals received good news on Thursday, December 10, 2020 with the announcement of long-awaited and debated proposed amendments to the complex Health...more
On January 14, 2020, Senator Jeff Brandes (R) introduced Florida Senate Bill 1334: Financial Services (SB 1334)[1], which would add two additional requirements to Florida Statute 624.155’s civil remedy notice provision: ...more
New York’s amendment to Regulation 187 has gone into effect, more than a year after it was first proposed. Our Insurance Litigation & Regulation Group investigates the changes to the original amendment and how they affect the...more
Earlier this year, California legislators proposed A.B. 981 (“the proposal”), which, among other things, would have exempted insurance institutions, agents and support organizations (“insurers”) from many provisions of the...more
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Reinsurance (E) Task Force has approved proposed revisions to the Credit for Reinsurance Model Law (Model Law) and the Credit for Reinsurance Model Regulation (Model...more