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Brian Green of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge is in Washington, D.C., participating in “Behind the Curtain: Insight Into the Aviation Practice from Go-Team to Trial,” presented by the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section and Aviation & Space Law Committee. 

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Read More American Bar Association Conference – Aviation Law

This updates our June 23, 2009 posting.  As we previously reported, the Obama Administration proposed a broad overhaul of the federal financial regulatory system earlier this year.  As part of the overhaul, the Administration, together with Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass), proposed H.R. 3126 which would create a Consumer Finance Protection Agency (“CFPA”) to act as an independent executive agency with broad authority to regulate the provision of consumer financial products or services, including certain insurance products. 

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Read More House Financial Services Committee Exempts Insurance from Oversight by Proposed Consumer Finance Protection Agency

The Sixth Circuit recently denied an insurer’s petition for a writ of mandamus to vacate a discovery order compelling the production of information which the insurer argued was protected from discovery by the work-product and/or attorney-client privileges. 

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Read More Sixth Circuit Finds Court Order Requiring Insurer to Produce Privileged Documents Not Clearly Erroneous

On October 21, the House Judiciary Committee voted to repeal health and medical malpractice insurers’ long-standing federal antitrust exemption.  By a vote of 20-9 in which three Republicans crossed party lines to vote yes, the committee approved H.R. 3596, the Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2009. …
Read More House Committee Votes to Eliminate Insurers’ Federal Antitrust Exemption

The Insurance and Reinsurance Department of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge invites you to join them for “Up Against A Chinese Drywall:  Recent Developments in the Ongoing Products Liability and Coverage Litigation” – a complimentary 60 minute webinar to be held Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 12:00pm EDT / 4:00pm GMT. 

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Read More EAPD WEBINAR: Up Against a Chinese Drywall – Recent Developments in the Ongoing Products Liability and Coverage Litigation

This week, Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle announced an emergency rule (the “Rule”) interpreting and implementing Section 632.895 (12m) of the Wisconsin Statutes which mandates that insurers and self-insured health plans provide coverage for the treatment of autism spectrum disorders.  Specifically, Section 632.895 (12m) requires that every disability insurance policy (except

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Read More Wisconsin Announces Emergency Rule for Implementation of Autism Coverage

Jeremy Cox will succeed Matthew Elderfield as CEO of the BMA at the beginning of next year. Matthew Elderfield, the current CEO of the BMA, is stepping down at the end of this year to take up the post of director of financial regulation at the Central Bank of Ireland. 

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Read More Bermuda: Cox appointed CEO of the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) Effective 1 January 2010