Please join Locke Lord and FTI Consulting for a complimentary webinar series on market influences and legal and regulatory issues impacting the health care industry in 2024. Over the next several months, we will explore the current deal-making environment, the role of bankruptcy and restructuring solutions and enforcement trends.
Healthcare
Maryland Issues Bulletin No. 24-11 on the Use of AI in Insurance
Commissioner Kathleen Birrane, Maryland Insurance Administration, on April 22, 2024 issued Bulletin No. 24-11, The Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems in Insurance (the “Bulletin”).…
Privacy & Cybersecurity Newsletter – Summer 2021
Locke Lord’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Newsletter provides topical snapshots of recent developments in the fast-changing world of privacy, data protection, and cyber risk management. For further information on any of the subjects covered in the newsletter, please contact one of the members of our privacy and cybersecurity team.…
Top 10 Insurance Laws And Regulations Of The Decade
The insurance industry experienced significant and varied forms of new legislation and regulation during the last decade. Below, we highlight what we view as the top 10 of these legal and regulatory changes.…
Locke Lord Assists Oscar Health in Joint Venture with Cigna
Jon Biasetti (Chicago) led a Locke Lord team representing Oscar, a tech-driven health insurance company, in a joint venture with Cigna, a leading global health service company. Cigna and Oscar will jointly provide fully insured health benefits under the Cigna + Oscar brand to the small group market, and share risk thereon through reinsurance.…
Privacy & Cybersecurity Newsletter – November 2019
Locke Lord’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Newsletter provides topical snapshots of recent developments in the fast-changing world of privacy, data protection, and cyber risk management. For further information on any of the subjects covered in the newsletter, please contact one of the members of our privacy and cybersecurity team.…
LL Surplus Lines Series (Entry 16): Expert Analysis – Disability Insurance in the Surplus Lines Market and Recent Legislative Updates
The Surplus lines market has traditionally been a method for insurance placement available to property and casualty products only, although states are increasingly opening up other lines of insurance to the nonadmitted market. For example, a growing number of states have either expressly or indirectly allowed for accident and health coverage to be written through the surplus lines market, and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners released guidance earlier this year advising the states on how to effectively legislate for the expansion of insurance lines that may be written on a surplus lines basis.…
Locke Lord Receives Deal of the Year Award From The Deal for Role in CVS Health’s Acquisition of Aetna
The Deal has awarded Locke Lord with its 2019 Deal of the Year distinction for the Firm’s role as national insurance regulatory counsel to CVS Health in its completed acquisition of Aetna. The honor was announced at the June 20 ceremony for The Deal Awards, which recognize leading lawyers, bankers, advisers and investors who are setting the trends in the industry.…
Can Republican-Led States Succeed in Enjoining the Affordable Care Act?
Medicare Part E for All – An Idea Whose Time, Perhaps, Has Still Not Come
Since the Fall of 2017, the Trump Administration has used its executive and regulatory authority to roll back coverage requirements for Affordable Care Act[1] (ACA) health plans and expand access to association health plans that would be offered outside of ACA’s exchanges to small businesses and self-employed individuals. In response…