Announcements
Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP is pleased to announce a webinar presented by Chris Petersen and Joe Holahan focused on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and its impact on health plans, agents, brokers, TPAs and other business associates of health plans. The webinar will examine changes to the HIPAA privacy and security regulations and new requirements regarding security breach procedures. The webinar will be held April 1, 2009 at 3:00 p.m. EST. To register for the webinar please contact Carly Hartwick at chartwick@mmmlaw.com.
Jim Maxson spoke on how the new phenomenon of life insurance policy loans are impacting the life settlement industry at the Financial Research Associates Fifth Investors Summit on the Secondary Life Marketing, held in New York on January 26-27, 2009.
Lew Hassett and Tom Player have been recognized as 2009 Georgia Super Lawyers. Georgia Super Lawyers are chosen based on Law & Politics’ and Super Lawyers’ magazines statewide nomination process, review of individual resumes and the evaluation of peers. Only five percent of the attorneys in Georgia are chosen each year.
Jim Maxson was a featured panelist on the International Society of Life Settlement Professionals’ first teleconference focusing on the impact of mark-to-market principles on the life settlement industry, held February 5, 2009.
Chris Petersen spoke at the Delta Dental Plans Association Legal Conference on February 26, 2009. Mr. Petersen spoke on extraterritorial issues and how it impacts the historical regulation of insurers and group products through the “issued and delivered” standard. Mr. Petersen also discussed the NAIC’s draft white paper on jurisdictional and extraterritorial issues.
Lew Hassett and Ben Vitale have submitted an amicus curaie brief to the United States Court of Appeals of the Eleventh Circuit on behalf of Georgia Land Title Association in the case of Terrace Mortgage Corporation v. Gordon, Case No. 08-16105-DD. The case involves whether a defectively attested mortgage which is actually recorded and properly indexed provides constructive notice sufficient to trump a bankruptcy trustee’s strong-arm powers. The issue is of great importance to the title insurance industry.
Skip Myers spoke on Congressional action on insurance reform at the American Conference Institute on February 26, 2009, in New York City.
Jim Maxson’s article “Regulation in the Life Settlement Industry: Has the Pendulum Swung Too Far?” will be published in the March 2009 issue of Life Settlement Review.
Skip Myers will be speaking on three panels on captive insurance and risk retention group issues at the Captive Insurance Companies Association (CICA) annual meeting in Indian Wells, CA on March 8 - 10.
On March 4, 2009, Morris, Manning & Martin hosted an interactive webinar designed to educate sophisticated investors about life settlements. Of counsel Jim Maxson, along with Partners Ward Bondurant and Bill Winter, in association with Proverian Capital, LLC, hosted Life Settlements: What Investors Should Know for an audience of approximately 150 participants.
Jim Maxson and Ward Bondurant will speak at the Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP sponsored First Annual Life Settlement Investment Summit in New York on March 25 - 26, 2009. For information, please contact www.iqpc.com/us/lifesettlement, or Marie-Louise Adlercreutz at 212-885-2687.
Skip Myers will be an instructor at the NAIC program for regulators on risk retention groups and their regulation on April 21, 2009 in Kansas City.
Jim Maxson will be a speaker at the Life Insurance Settlement Association (LISA) conference to be held May 6-8, 2009, in New York.
Jim Maxson will speak at The International Life Settlements Conference 2009 in London, May 20 -21, 2009.
Bob Gutkin recently joined the firm in January 2009. Mr. Gutkin has an extensive litigation background in intellectual property matters and insurance matters. Mr. Gutkin has been a faculty participant with the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) and currently serves as a committee member in the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO).
Jim Maxson and Donna Fuller participated in the Life and Health Compliance Association (LHCA) meeting January 21-23, 2009, held in Atlanta.
Joe Holahan’s article, “A Primer for Risk Retention Groups on the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA),” appeared in the February 2009 issue of the Risk Retention Reporter.
Skip Myers spoke on captive insurance issues at the Vermont Captive Insurance Association “road show” in Atlanta on February 17, 2009.
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