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Articles 61 - 90 of 93
Full-Text Articles in Law
Dead Or Alive? The Law, Policy, And Market Effects Of Legislation On Unclaimed Life Insurance Benefits, James M. Carson, Robert E. Hoyt, Tim R. Samples
Dead Or Alive? The Law, Policy, And Market Effects Of Legislation On Unclaimed Life Insurance Benefits, James M. Carson, Robert E. Hoyt, Tim R. Samples
Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy
A wave of multi-state audits on the insurance industry’s use of the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File (DMF) stirred national controversy over the status of unclaimed life insurance proceeds. Multi-state investigations uncovered “asymmetric” use of the DMF among many large insurance companies. Accusations of unethical behavior led to numerous settlement agreements between state regulators and insurers. Payouts and fines stemming from these settlements already number in the billions of dollars. Legislative responses are also underway. Some states have adopted—and others are considering—legislation requiring life insurers to search the DMF to identify and pay (or eascheat) unclaimed death benefits. Currently, …
Department Of Insurance, J. D. Fellmeth
Department Of Insurance, J. D. Fellmeth
California Regulatory Law Reporter
No abstract provided.
Changing The Tax Code To Create Consumer-Driven Health Insurance Competition, Regina Herzlinger, Barak D. Richman
Changing The Tax Code To Create Consumer-Driven Health Insurance Competition, Regina Herzlinger, Barak D. Richman
Faculty Scholarship
Because current tax laws exclude employer-paid health insurance premiums from employees’ taxable wages and income, employer-sponsored insurance remains the primary source of health insurance for most employed Americans. Economists have long blamed the employer-based insurance tax exclusion for inflating health care costs, and, more recently, for constraining income growth and exacerbating income inequality.
We execute a simulation to test the effect of permitting employees to receive their employers’ premium contribution directly and then purchase health insurance themselves, using tax-free funds. Employees could deduct for income tax purposes the amount used for insurance and, if they spend less than the amount …
Insurance Law, J. Price Collins, Blake H. Crawford, John C. Scott
Insurance Law, J. Price Collins, Blake H. Crawford, John C. Scott
SMU Annual Texas Survey
No abstract provided.
Challenging Nonbank Sifi Designations: Ge, Metlife, And The Need For Reform, Drita Dokic
Challenging Nonbank Sifi Designations: Ge, Metlife, And The Need For Reform, Drita Dokic
Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act created, among other things, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), an entity within the U.S. Department of the Treasury tasked with assessing and mitigating financial risk. Financial institutions with over $50 billion in assets are automatically deemed “systemically important.” However, under the Dodd-Frank Act, FSOC has the authority to designate non-bank companies engaged in financial activity as systemically important as well. Once designated as a systemically important financial institution (SIFI), these companies are subject to enhanced regulation and supervision by the Federal Reserve. Because the costs associated with such enhanced regulation …
Introduction: Four Views On Healthism
Introduction: Four Views On Healthism
Marquette Benefits and Social Welfare Law Review
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In Defense Of The Restatement Of Liability Insurance Law, Tom Baker, Kyle D. Logue
In Defense Of The Restatement Of Liability Insurance Law, Tom Baker, Kyle D. Logue
All Faculty Scholarship
For most non-contractual legal claims for damages that are brought against individuals or firms, there is some form of liability insurance coverage. The Restatement of the Law Liability Insurance is the American Law Institute’s first effort to “restate” the common law governing such liability insurance policies, and we are the reporters. In a recent essay funded by the insurance industry, Yale Law Professor George Priest launched a strident critique of the Restatement project, arguing that the rules adopted in the Restatement:
(a) are radically contrary to existing case law,
(b) have a naïve “pro-policyholder” bias that ignores basic economic insights …
Computer Systems Fraud - Computer Systems Fraud In The Era Of Big Data And Ehrs, John Sepulveda
Computer Systems Fraud - Computer Systems Fraud In The Era Of Big Data And Ehrs, John Sepulveda
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Consumer Financial Protection In Health Care, Erin C. Fuse Brown
Consumer Financial Protection In Health Care, Erin C. Fuse Brown
Faculty Publications By Year
There are inadequate consumer protections from harmful medical billing practices that result in unavoidable, unexpected, and often financially devastating medical bills. The problem stems from the increasing costs shifting to patients in American health care and the inordinate complexity that makes health care transactions nearly impossible for consumers to navigate. A particularly outrageous example is the phenomenon of surprise medical bills, which refers to unanticipated and involuntary out-of-network bills in emergencies or from out-of-network providers at in-network facilities. Other damaging medical billing practices include the opaque and à la carte nature of medical bills, epitomized by added “facility fees,” as …
The American Health Care Act Would Toss The States A Hot Potato, David Gamage, Darien Shanske
The American Health Care Act Would Toss The States A Hot Potato, David Gamage, Darien Shanske
Articles by Maurer Faculty
This essay explains how the American Health Care Act (AHCA) – the House Republicans’ proposed replacement for Obamacare – would toss a hot potato to state governments. Were the AHCA to be enacted into law, state governments would need to act promptly if they are to save individual insurance markets within their states. This essay explains measures that state governments might take to respond to this threat.
Mutually Assured Protection Among Large U.S. Law Firms, Tom Baker, Rick Swedloff
Mutually Assured Protection Among Large U.S. Law Firms, Tom Baker, Rick Swedloff
All Faculty Scholarship
Top law firms are notoriously competitive, fighting for prime clients and matters. But some of the most elite firms are also deeply cooperative, willingly sharing key details about their finances and strategy with their rivals. More surprisingly, they pay handsomely to do so. Nearly half of the AmLaw 100 and 200 belong to mutual insurance organizations that require member firms to provide capital; partner time; and important information about their governance, balance sheets, risk management, strategic plans, and malpractice liability. To answer why these firms do so when there are commercial insurers willing to provide coverage with fewer burdens, we …
N.C. Medicaid Reform: A Bipartisan Path Forward, Barak D. Richman, Allison Rice
N.C. Medicaid Reform: A Bipartisan Path Forward, Barak D. Richman, Allison Rice
Faculty Scholarship
The North Carolina Medicaid program currently constitutes 32% of the state budget and provides insurance coverage to 18% of the state’s population. At the same time, 13% of North Carolinians remain uninsured, and even among the insured, significant health disparities persist across income, geography, education, and race.
The Duke University Bass Connections Medicaid Reform project gathered to consider how North Carolina could use its limited Medicaid dollars more effectively to reduce the incidence of poor health, improve access to healthcare, and reduce budgetary pressures on the state’s taxpayers.
This report is submitted to North Carolina’s policymakers and citizens. It assesses …
E/Insuring The Marijuana Industry, Francis J. Mootz Iii
E/Insuring The Marijuana Industry, Francis J. Mootz Iii
University of the Pacific Law Review
No abstract provided.
Murder For Life Insurance Money: Protecting The Children, Johnny C. Chriscoe
Murder For Life Insurance Money: Protecting The Children, Johnny C. Chriscoe
Scholarly Works
Children are being murdered for life insurance proceeds.
Of course, if a beneficiary murders a child for the recovery of life insurance money and if he is apprehended, he will surely face numerous legal consequences. He will not recover the insurance money, he will be prosecuted and likely sentenced to life imprisonment or execution, he may be sued for the wrongful death of the child and he may be prosecuted for insurance fraud. However, all of these legal responses are triggered by the death of the child and, therefore, do not serve to protect the child from being murdered in …
The Other "Personal Injury": Coverage B Of The Cgl Policy, Jeffrey W. Stempel
The Other "Personal Injury": Coverage B Of The Cgl Policy, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
Notes From A Quiet Corner: User Concerns About Reinsurance Arbitration – And Attendant Lessons For Selection Of Dispute Resolution Forums And Methods, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Notes From A Quiet Corner: User Concerns About Reinsurance Arbitration – And Attendant Lessons For Selection Of Dispute Resolution Forums And Methods, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Scholarly Works
Arbitration between insurers and reinsurers – those who insure insurance companies – should logically run as smoothly as any arbitration process. Like the traditional commercial arbitration that drove enactment of the Federal Arbitration Act, reinsurance arbitration involves experienced actors in a confined industry in which the parties should be constructively aware of the rules, norms, customs and practices of the industry. But in spite of this, reinsurance arbitration experiences consistent problems of which the participants complain. This article reviews the complaints and exams possible solutions – including the possibility of arbitrating less and litigating more. Although these possible solutions would …
An Analytic "Gap": The Perils Of Relentless Enforcement Of Payment-By-Underlying-Insurer-Only Language In Excess Insurance Policies, Jeffrey W. Stempel
An Analytic "Gap": The Perils Of Relentless Enforcement Of Payment-By-Underlying-Insurer-Only Language In Excess Insurance Policies, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Scholarly Works
Excess liability insurance, as the phrase implies, sits atop primary insurance or a lower layer of excess insurance and is required to cover only claims that are above the policy's "underlying limit" and reach the "attachment point" of the excess policy in question. Historically, the law was largely indifferent to whether the underlying limit was exhausted by full payment from the underlying insurer or by other means such as payment by the policyholder due to an underlying insurer's insolvency or because the policyholder and underlying insurer had compromised a coverage dispute for less than 100 percent coverage by the underlying …
Despite Trump, Federal ‘Tort Reform’ Makes A Hasty Retreat, Joanne Doroshow
Despite Trump, Federal ‘Tort Reform’ Makes A Hasty Retreat, Joanne Doroshow
Other Publications
No abstract provided.
Compulsory Corporate Cyber-Liability Insurance: Outsourcing Data Privacy Regulation To Prevent And Mitigate Data Breaches, Minhquang N. Trang
Compulsory Corporate Cyber-Liability Insurance: Outsourcing Data Privacy Regulation To Prevent And Mitigate Data Breaches, Minhquang N. Trang
Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology
No abstract provided.
Remedying Stigma-Driven Health Disparities In Sexual Minorities, Valarie K. Blake
Remedying Stigma-Driven Health Disparities In Sexual Minorities, Valarie K. Blake
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Forced Arbitration’S Lethal Consequence, Joanne Doroshow
Forced Arbitration’S Lethal Consequence, Joanne Doroshow
Other Publications
No abstract provided.
The Role Of Prejudice In Resolving Insurance Condition Clause Disputes: The Good; The Bad; The Ugly, Johnny Parker
The Role Of Prejudice In Resolving Insurance Condition Clause Disputes: The Good; The Bad; The Ugly, Johnny Parker
Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works
This Article examines the legal consequences that flow out of an insurance company’s denial of coverage based on an insured’s failure to comply with policy conditions. Specifically, this Article examines the various methods used by courts to strike a balance between the principle of freedom of contract and policy norms associated with resolving condition clause disputes. The pros and cons of the historical condition precedent vs. condition subsequent analysis and the modern day functional approach to contractual interpretation are dissected and discussed in the insurance contract context. The prejudice rule, which is associated with the functional approach to contract interpretation, …
Fracking Health Care: How To Safely De-Medicalize America And Recover Trapped Value For Its People, William M. Sage
Fracking Health Care: How To Safely De-Medicalize America And Recover Trapped Value For Its People, William M. Sage
Faculty Scholarship
The wealth trapped within American health care is simultaneously a tragedy and a miracle. It is a tragedy because stagnating wages, widening disparities in income, ballooning deficits, and stunted investments in education and social services make such medical profligacy shameful. It is a miracle because it still exists, whereas other U.S. economic resources of similar magnitude have already been dissipated by global market forces without addressing any of the aforementioned failings – indeed, sometimes having contributed to them. It therefore can be released and used.
It is time to “frack the health care system” and innovate the de-medicalization of America. …
Enterprise Without Entities, Andrew Verstein
Enterprise Without Entities, Andrew Verstein
Michigan Law Review
Scholars and practicing lawyers alike consider legal entities to be essential. Who can imagine running a large business without using a business organization, such as a corporation or partnership? This Article challenges conventional wisdom by showing that vast enterprises—with millions of customers paying trillions of dollars—often operate without any meaningful use of entities.
This Article introduces the reciprocal exchange, a type of insurance company that operates without any meaningful use of a legal entity. Instead of obtaining insurance from a common nexus of contract, customers directly insure one another through a dense web of bilateral agreements. While often overlooked or …
From The Technical To The Personal: Teaching And Learning Health Insurance Regulation And Reform, Allison K. Hoffman, Whitney A. Brown, Lindsay Cutler
From The Technical To The Personal: Teaching And Learning Health Insurance Regulation And Reform, Allison K. Hoffman, Whitney A. Brown, Lindsay Cutler
All Faculty Scholarship
In the Fall of 2016, I taught Health Law and Policy for the fourth consecutive semester. Over time, one thing has become increasingly clear: the aspect of this course that I work with most closely as a scholar—the regulation of health care financing and insurance, including the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)—is also the material that I find the most challenging to teach. Every time I reflect on teaching this material, and hear from students about how they learn this material, the thing that stands out is how critical it is that my students understand the profound impact …
Benefits Of The U.S. Program For Terrorism Insurance From A Comparative Perspective, Jeffrey E. Thomas
Benefits Of The U.S. Program For Terrorism Insurance From A Comparative Perspective, Jeffrey E. Thomas
Faculty Works
This article summarizes the U.S. program for terrorism insurance and outlines its advantages as compared to similar programs in other developed countries. The program, while similar to reinsurance, does not require participants to pay premiums but instead uses an ex post recoupment mechanism. Consequently, it is generally referred to as a Federal “backstop.” This approach requires less capital investment and makes “pricing” more accurate than a reinsurance approach. The program also requires insurers to maintain significant amounts of exposure through insurer deductibles and copayments, which creates market demand for the development of terrorism reinsurance in the private market. The current …
Salvaging The Term "Suitor": How The Declaratory Judgment Act Has Commandeered Congressional Intent, Brett P. Hargaden
Salvaging The Term "Suitor": How The Declaratory Judgment Act Has Commandeered Congressional Intent, Brett P. Hargaden
Roger Williams University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Rising To The Level Of Climate Science: Rhode Island, The National Flood Insurance Program, And Sea Level Rise Projections, Nicole E. Rohr
Rising To The Level Of Climate Science: Rhode Island, The National Flood Insurance Program, And Sea Level Rise Projections, Nicole E. Rohr
Roger Williams University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Community Integration Of People With Disabilities: Can Olmstead Protect Against Retrenchment?, Mary Crossley
Community Integration Of People With Disabilities: Can Olmstead Protect Against Retrenchment?, Mary Crossley
Articles
Since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990, states have made significant progress in enabling Americans with disabilities to live in their communities, rather than institutions. That progress reflects the combined effect of the Supreme Court’s holding in Olmstead v. L.C. ex rel. Zimring, that states’ failure to provide services to disabled persons in the community may violate the ADA, and amendments to Medicaid that permit states to devote funding to home and community-based services (HCBS). This article considers whether Olmstead and its progeny could act as a check on a potential retrenchment of states’ …
Extra-Contractual Liability In The Restatement Of The Law, Liability Insurance: Breach Of The Duty To Settle Or Bad Faith?, Jeffrey E. Thomas
Extra-Contractual Liability In The Restatement Of The Law, Liability Insurance: Breach Of The Duty To Settle Or Bad Faith?, Jeffrey E. Thomas
Faculty Works
This paper focuses on the Restatement’s treatment of an insurer’s duty to settle and the duty of an insurer to act in good faith in handling liability claims. The duty to settle is framed as an objective “duty to the insured to make reasonable settlement decisions.” At the same time, however, a separate claim is retained for an insurer’s “bad faith” breach of its duties (including the duty to settle). Further, a subjective element is adopted for the bad faith standard. To be liable for “bad faith,” an insurer must act “without a reasonable basis for its conduct” and must …