Expect Focus - Volume III, Summer 2012
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
- CFTC Rule Changes: A Silver Lining?
LIFE INSURANCE
- Contingent Deferred Annuities Update
- STOLI and Contestability Provisions
- COI Case Developments
- International Financial Regulatory Reform
- Captiv(e)ating Developments at the NAIC
- FATCA – Evolving Guidance Unlikely to Exempt Insurance
HEALTH CARE
- Eleventh Circuit Affirms Denial of ALF Coverage
- Fifth Circuit Limits Insurer’s Discretionary Ability
- DUI Not Necessarily Bar to Life Insurance Benefits
PROPERTY & CASUALTY
- Florida Supreme Court: No Cause of Action for Common Law Bad Faith
- Ripples from Spitzer’s Big Splash Have Not Yet Subsided
- Fundamental Insurance Defenses May Be Asserted Against Additional Insureds
- Agent’s Error Imputed to Insurer
NARROWING THE FOCUS
- Final Swap Definition Rules
SECURITIES
- Mutual Funds and Insurance Companies Eye “Major Swap Participant” Definition
- Fund Manager Fined for Favoritism
- Applying Janus One Year Later
- Who is a “Supervisor” After the Urban Case?
- FSOC Sheds Little Light on Systemic Risk Determinations
- Variable Product Communications Rule Withdrawn
- A Risk-Based Approach to Suitability Documentation
- Commodity Pool Operator Rule Under Fire
- Tippee Liability for Confidential Government Information
CONSUMER FINANCE & BANKING
- New at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- Court Says No Revocation to Consent After Contract
- 11th Circuit Ruling Severs Fee Shifting Provision
- Arbitration Roundup
IP/TECHNOLOGY
- New Obligations and Potential Liabilities from Canada’s Anti-Spam Law
- ICANN Reveals the Applied-For gTLD Names
- NLRB Offers “Guidance” on Social Media Policies