Regulation & Public Policy

Digital communications with customers bring huge benefits but also create the possibility for huge, instantaneous, irrevocable errors.

It is the uncertainty in the losses that makes the protection gap real and makes insurance such a valuable tool for risk management.

A hair-weaving certificate requires 300 hours of training. An individual selling reinsurance needs zero education and faces zero testing.

The economic structures of typical securities defense firms result in costs that significantly exceed what is rational to spend in a usual class action.

In the wake of the Met Life court decision, some claim that federal regulators must tie up "Snoopy." But they miss a key point about the states.

Unless changes are made, securities litigation will pose greater and greater risk to directors and officers, despite D&O policies.

Large insurers must understand and manage regulatory mandates across more jurisdictions and services than ever before.

It is time for the insurance industry to wake up -- or it will have further fiduciary regulations and scrutiny thrust upon it.