Insurance

Insurance clients benefit from our extensive industry-specific experience.

Insurance

Insurance clients benefit from our extensive industry-specific experience.

With offices in an INSURANCE INDUSTRY CAPITAL, our insurance attorneys apply vast experience to the representation of insurance industry clients.

EXPANSIVE INSURANCE LEGAL SERVICES

All types of insurance industry clients—including national and international publicly traded stock and mutual companies providing life, health, property, and casualty products—rely on our insurance attorneys for both complex and routine legal matters. Our insurance attorneys routinely handle transactions for insurance companies, including:

  • Formation and licensing
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Capitalization activities through public and private offerings

 

Our insurance attorneys’ extensive representation experience also includes regulatory matters, such as:

  • Holding Company Act compliance
  • Product development, insurance marketing, and investment practices
  • Privacy compliance
  • Health care and managed care regulations
  • Antitrust counseling
  • State-sponsored insurance plan activities
  • Guaranty association matters
  • Legislative lobbying

 

Our insurance attorneys are active in state and national organizations and regularly work closely with insurance regulators of many states.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH

To offer full-service advice and representation—including litigation and trial services—to insurance clients, we draw on experienced attorneys and seasoned litigators in practice areas across the firm:

INSURANCE INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

Our highly experienced insurance attorneys are well-versed in the variety of legal needs faced by the insurance industry. For example:

  • Represent mutual insurance companies in demutualization and related securities transactions.
  • General representation of property and casualty insurance company in connection with securities and general corporate matters, including its demutualization.
  • Assist insurance companies in preparing filings to comply with state insurance holding company acts.
  • Assist insurance companies with questions on annual statement, quarterly statements, and other compliance filings.
  • General representation of large health insurance company, including provider agreements, contracting, and joint ventures.
  • General representation of dental insurance company, including provider agreements, contracting, and joint ventures.
  • Insurance regulatory approvals for the acquisition of insurance companies in various states, including Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
  • Development of insurance products, including fixed, equity, and variable annuities and life products.
  • Represent mutual life insurance company in connection with mutual insurance holding company reorganization and continuing representation on general corporate and insurance regulatory matters affecting holding company system.
  • Represent mutual property and casualty insurance company in connection with affiliation transaction involving capital investment through surplus notes.
  • Represent regulatory agency in connection with review and approval of demutualization of mutual property and casualty insurance company.
  • Representation of alien insurers in establishing presence in U.S. domestic insurance market.
  • Representation and involvement in state and national life and health insurance guaranty system.
  • Representation of insurers in redomestication activities.