Corporate and Regulatory Insurance

The people at BSWB understand the business of insurance and reinsurance. Their many years of experience and combined depth of expertise allow the firm to provide a full range of corporate and regulatory insurance legal services from formation and licensing of insurance companies to exit strategies for certain lines of business and everything in between. These include all forms of market conduct and compliance matters, mergers, acquisitions, re-domestications, holding company and registration act filings and compliance, product approvals, policy form and rate filings, surplus lines status, tax issues, and examinations. The firm’s attorneys advise and represent a broad array of clients, including insurance and reinsurance companies, captive insurers, brokers, agents, managing general agents, reinsurance intermediaries, adjustors, risk retention groups, risk purchasing groups, surplus lines brokers and third-party administrators. Firm members communicate regularly with insurance regulators and have developed close regulatory contacts. The firm also counsels clients on the dynamic changes at the federal level that impact the insurance industry such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002, and the Liability Risk Retention Act of 1986.