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
The Standard Formula Podcast | Dissecting the Solvency Capital Requirement
Best Practices for Negotiating Manuscript Exclusions
AGG Talks: Healthcare Insights - Episode 1: A Primer for Providers When Insurance Companies Refuse to Pay
The Standard Formula Podcast | Solvency II Back to Basics: Technical Provisions
D&O Insurance Myths (Part 2)
Hinshaw Insurance Law TV | Bad Faith Law
The Standard Formula Podcast | Investment Rules for Insurers and Reinsurers
D&O Insurance Myths (Part 1)
The Standard Formula Podcast | Understanding the UK’s Matching Adjustment Regime
The Standard Formula Podcast | Solvency II Back to Basics: Third Country Branches and Cross-Border Provision of Services
Standard Formula Podcast | Reinsurance and Risk Transfer: Risk Mitigation Under the Solvency II Regime
Hinshaw Releases Second Edition of Duty to Defend: A Fifty-State Survey
Hinshaw Insurance Law TV – Transaction Insurance Solutions
The Standard Formula Podcast | Understanding Insurance Resolution Regimes
The Risk Roundtable: Demystifying the Intersection Between NJ Workers' Comp & Employment Practice Liability
GILTI Conscience Podcast | Tax Insurance 101
Insurance for the Cannabis Industry: Risks & Challenges
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its 2024 Summer National Meeting August 11-15 in Chicago, Illinois, where regulators continued to work through the implementation of numerous investment-related...more
In recent years, demographic changes and macroeconomic factors have led to significant growth in insurance markets. Within insurance markets, a much more active market in trading “back-books” of insurance liabilities has...more
The concept of “control” of insurers received significant attention from state insurance regulators last year and will receive even more in 2023. We wrote a brief report in April 2022 following the New York Department of...more
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its 2022 Fall National Meeting from December 12-16 in Tampa, Florida. The agenda for this National Meeting was limited, with a number of NAIC working groups...more
As private equity and venture capital investors add insurance company investments to their portfolios, those investments may ultimately end up being regulated more than they bargained for. Although private equity investment...more
Last month the NAIC Capital Markets Bureau issued a Special Report finding that despite an in increase in the number of private equity (“PE”) owned U.S. insurers, investment volume held by PE-owned insurers declined as of...more
Innovation, Cybersecurity, and Technology (H) Committee Adopts Request for Modernized Privacy Protections Model Law; Receives Working Group Reports - The Innovation, Cybersecurity, and Technology (H) Committee met on...more
The Mitchell Williams Insurance Regulatory team of lawyers recently attended the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) 2022 Summer National Meeting which was held in Portland, Oregon on August 9-13th. We have...more
In our report published on April 26, 2022, we discussed the New York Department of Financial Services’ (NYDFS) Circular Letter No. 5 in which it reminded the industry that acquiring less than 10% of an insurer’s voting...more
State and federal policymakers, including the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) and Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH, Chair of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee) have recently taken a...more
In the course of corporate development, either by an extant insurance holding company structure or in another context such as private equity, the question may arise: “How do we diligence an insurance company?” This Article...more
As innovative technologies continue to transform the insurance industry, private equity firms and venture capital funds continue to invest in promising insurtech startups and other licensed insurance entities. However, while...more
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (“NAIC”) Macroprudential Working Group (“MWG”) is reviewing the influence that private equity firms have over the insurance industry. The MWG has recently approved a list...more
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its 2021 Fall National Meeting from December 11 to 16 in San Diego, California. The meeting was held in a hybrid in-person and remote format due to the ongoing...more
For much of the past 10 years, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) and individual state insurance regulators have highlighted their awareness of the increasing number of insurers controlled by private...more
On August 26, 2021, the Statutory Accounting Principles (E) Working Group (SAPWG) of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) directed a new “43R study group” to continue work on a proposed principles-based...more
In what many consider a banner year for fintech megadeals, insurtech has begun to take center stage. In early August 2019, Roper Technologies agreed to acquire life insurance software solutions provider iPipeline for $1.6...more
In This Issue: - M&A Activity in the Insurance Industry - Developments in the M&A Regulatory Environment - NAIC Private Equity Issues (E) Working Group - The Working Group’s Proposals Subject to Comment ...more