United Kingdom - May 26 2011
Last year, the Law Commission questioned whether Section 53 of the Marine Insurance Act 1906 (the MIA) should be reformed (Issues Paper 8) and whether Section 22 of the MIA should be repealed (Issues Paper 9)....
United Kingdom - March 9 2011
In our September 2010 issue of Insurance and Reinsurance Review, we reported on the Law Commission's proposed amendments to the duty of good faith as set out in Issues Papers 6 and 7....
USA - January 25 2011
A New York appeals court recently dismissed one of two lawsuits filed against MBIA Inc. (“MBIA”) by more than a dozen major financial institutions concerning the bond insurer’s financial restructuring....
Gregory S. Hoffnagle, Jeanne Kohler.
USA - January 25 2011
The Federal Trade Commission (the "FTC") recently released a preliminary staff report entitled Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change: A Proposed Framework for Businesses and Policymakers, proposing a normative framework for company protection of consumers' privacy (the "Proposed Framework")....
Gregory S. Hoffnagle, Jeanne Kohler.
USA - January 24 2011
On January 7, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule to establish a value-based purchasing (VBP) program to reward hospitals for providing safe, high-quality care....
Gregory S. Hoffnagle, Jeanne Kohler.