Locke Lord has been recognized as one of the leading cybersecurity law firms by corporate counsel in the “BTI Law Firms Best at Cybersecurity 2017: Corporate Counsel Rank the Law Firms Leading the Charge on Change” report. Published by BTI Consulting Group, the report states that cybersecurity and…

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Tucked away in the proposed arbitration rule of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the addition of a new consumer financial product and service deemed to be within the purview of the CFPB. The arbitration rule, which would prohibit the inclusion of class action waivers in arbitration provisions for…
Read More Locke Lord’s Brian Casey, Partner in the Atlanta office Authors “CFPB’s New Rules For Cellphone Carrier Third-Party Billers” for Law360 on November 30, 2016

During last few years, approximately 23 states passed seemingly favorable, pro ecommerce insurance laws, primarily at the behest of the personal lines property and casualty insurance industry, namely new state insurance code statutes that allow an insurer to deliver an insurance policy to a policyholder simply by posting an electronic…
Read More Locke Lord’s Brian Casey, Partner in the Atlanta office, Authors “Where’s The E-Sign? A Primer On Electronic Signature Laws” for Law360 on August 30, 2016

On August 2, 2016, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued Findings of Violations of the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Sanctions Regulations against AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company and Humana Inc. In both cases, OFAC found that the companies did not screen their policyholders and beneficiaries against the OFAC Specially…

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Key Legislative Bills Passed by Georgia Assembly in 2016 Legislative Session, which Adjourned March 24, 2016, subject to Governor’s signature or veto by May 9, 2016:

Life Insurance Agent Protection for Advising on Alternatives to Policy Lapse or Surrender HB 193 – amends Georgia Insurance Code by creating new Section…

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California recently passed state law AB 1131 to establish new electronic process standards for life and annuity insurers. This new statute requires additional steps beyond those specified in the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (ESIGN), which has been in effect for the last 15 years. Pat…
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Brian Maynard, of Louisville, has been appointed as Commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Insurance.

Maynard has 30 years of insurance accounting experience. Since 2004, Maynard has been a contract examiner for Kentucky. Before then, he worked for INS Regulatory Insurance Services.

Commissioner Maynard graduated from the University of Louisville…

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On January 12, 2016 it was announced that Elizabeth Kelleher Dwyer was appointed as Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation’s Deputy Director and Superintendent of Insurance and Banking following former Deputy Director and Superintendent of Insurance and Banking, Joseph Torti’s retirement at the end of 2015.

Dwyer has fifteen years’…

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