News, Events & Publications Nick Pearson
Publications
Author, "Exit Strategies," Captive Review, May 2014
Co-author, "Does NRRA Capture Captives?," Captive Review Vermont Report, 2012
Co-author, "Dodd-Frank: The Road Ahead ," Bloomberg Law Reports, January 2012
Co-author, "The Dodd-Frank Act: The US Government Turns its Attention to Insurance Regulation," Bloomberg Law Reports, August 2010
Co-author, "Medicare Secondary Payer Reporting: Extraterritorial Applicability of Requirements to Foreign Insurers," Federation of Regulatory Counsel Journal, Summer 2010
Author, "Shedding Liabilities," Informa Insurance, in association with Edwards Wildman Palmer, The Review: The US Re/Insurance Recession Survival Guide 2009
Co-author, "The New York Insurance Department Will No Longer Approve D&O Policies Lacking 'Duty-to-Defend' Coverage Feature," Edwards Wildman Palmer Client Advisory, December 2008
Co-author, "Alternatives to US Receivership Laws," Run-Off & Restructuring, Issue 26, Autumn 2008
Co-author, "A New Deal for Cedents," Run Off Business, No. 20, Spring 2007; Edwards Wildman Palmer Insurance and Reinsurance Update, June 2007; and International Law Office's Insurance & Reinsurance - USA, July 2007
Co-author, "The Captive Evolution," Risk Factor, January 2007
Co-author, "A Scheme with a Twist," Run Off Business, Issue #16, Spring 2006
Co-author, Edwards Wildman Palmer Insurance and Reinsurance Update, June 2006
Author, "Stalemate on Solvent Run-Off," Run Off Business, Issue 17, Summer 2006
Co• author, "Regulation of Market Conduct of Property and Casualty Insurers," New York Insurance Law, Matthew Bender, latest rev. 2005
Co-author, "Insurance Regulation," Insurance Law Practice, Second Edition, New York State Bar Association, 2005
Author, "The BAIC Decision," JTW News, Issue 98, September 2005
Author, "A Profound Change," Best's Review, February 2005
Author, "Federal Regulation of Insurance," Best's Review, January 2005
Author, "Will the US Embrace Schemes?," Run Off Business, Issue 11, Winter 2004
Author, "Solvent Schemes of Arrangement in the US," Runoff Magazine, December 2004
Author, "Capital Gains," IQ, Autumn , 2004
Author, "Federal Proposal for Reform of US Insurance Regulation," Insurance Insider Quarterly, December 2004
Co-author, "The State of US Regulation," Reinsurance, June/July 2004
Co-author, "Old Cat, New Tricks," Best's Review, June 2004
Co-author, "No Relief from Securitization," SQ Insurance Securitization Quarterly Vol. 1/1, 2004
Author, "Navigating the US Reinsurance Rapids," Risk Transfer, 2003
Author, "Insolvent Liabilities - Anyone's Guess," Run Off Business, Issue 6, Autumn 2003
Co-author, "Commercial Lines Deregulation," Insurance Day, June-July 2002
Author, "Why Reinsurance Arbitration?," The ARIAS US Quarterly, Third Quarter 1999
Author, "Commercial Lines Deregulation," Edwards Wildman Palmer Insurance and Reinsurance Update, Fall 1999
Author, "Final Dividend Liquidation Plans: Whither Reinsurers?," Edwards Wildman Palmer Insurance & Reinsurance Update, Fall 1996
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Author, "Relationships of Mutual Trust are Fraying in Reinsurance Market," Best Week, 1995
Author, "Environmental Claims Present Problems," Rough Notes, 1995
Author, "Insurance Counsel: Beware State's Activist Approach," The New York Law Journal, 1994
Author, "Self-Insurance: The Big Economic Picture," National Underwriter, 1988
Events
Speaker, Association of Reinsurance and Insurance Run-Off Companies (AIRROC) Boston Regional Education Day, 9 April 2014
Speaker, "Unleashing the Value in a Captive," Captive Reinsurance Company Association International Conference, 9 March 2014
Moderator, "99th and 98th Annual Free Enterprise Award Luncheons," Insurance Federation of New York, New York, November 2012 and 2013
Panelist, "Regulation: The End of State-Based Regulation?," New York lnsiderScope, 8 May 2012
Speaker, American Bar Association/Federation of Regulatory Counsel "Federal Financial Regulatory Reform (Dodd-Frank)," Continuing Legal Education Program, November 2011
Speaker, ''The US Dodd-Frank Act: How it is Going to Affect You," Lloyd's Market Association Master Class, London, January 2011
Speaker, "Exploring the US Exit Strategies Landscape," C5's 9th Annual Current Trends and Opportunities in Insurance Exit Strategies, London, June 2008
Speaker, Impact of Commutation on a Runoff Company," AIRROC/Cavell Communications & Networking Event, East Rutherford, New Jersey, October 2007
Speaker, Commuting Your Reinsurance Exposure," American Conference lnstitute's Reinsurance Claims and Arbitration, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 2007
Panelist, "Who will Regulate Insurance Collateral: State v. Federal Government," American Conference lnstitute's Forum on Reinsurance Collateral
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- Adapting Insurance and Reinsurance Best Practices to New Regulatory Realities, New York, April 2007
Co-chair, "Why Reinsurance Arbitration?" Current Developments in Reinsurance Law, co-sponsored by the Insurance Federation of New York (IFNY) and the New York City Bar, New York, September 2006
Conference co-chair, Fifth International Guide to Reinsurance Claims and Collections, New York, June 2006
Panelist, "Regulatory Update, Recent Trends and Developments in Runoff," panelist, ACI's 6th International Advanced Forum on Run-Off and Commutations, New York, April 2006
Moderator, The 5th International Advanced Forum on Run-Off & Commutations; Achieving and Managing Finality, September 2005
Conference co-chair & Panelist, REACT 2005 - Risk Reward Reinsurance, the Reinsurance Industry Event, June 2005
Moderator & Panelist, "Six Months Later - Where Are We Now," Mealey's 12th Annual Insurance Insolvency & Reinsurance Roundtable, April 2005
Teaching
Lecturer, "Short Term Export Credit Insurance: Trends in the United States and Comparisons with Other Products," 17th Annual Global Convention Insuring Export Credit Political Risk, London, February 2007
Lecturer, "Are You SMART? Federal Regulatory Initiatives," Insurance and Reinsurance Industry Law 2005, Edwards Wildman Palmer CLE Accredited Seminar, June 2005
Lecturer, "Broker Compensation in the Age of Spitzer," Professional Insurance Wholesalers Association (PIWA) Midyear Conference & Excess Line Association of New York (ELANY) Annual Meeting, May 2005
Lecturer, "Ethics in the Insurance Industry," Society of Insurance Licensing Administrators , (SILA) National Education Conference, March 2005
Lecturer, "The 'SMART' Act; An Overview," AIG Seminar, 2004
Lecturer, "Can't Pay, Won't Pay," The Association of Runoff Companies Annual Congress, London, 2004
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Lecturer, "Regulatory Credit for Reinsurance and Preanswer Security," American Conference Institute
Lecturer, "A Private Right of Action Under New York's Unfair Claims Practices Act," American International Group Legal Staff Conference
Lecturer, "Fronting - Is It a Dirty Word?," Bermuda Insurance Symposium
Lecturer , "The Role of the Non-Admitted Market," Insurance Regulation Conference, Executive Enterprise Institute
Lecturer, "The Regulation of Alien Insurers and Reinsurers," Tort and Insurance Practice Section Conference, American Bar Association
Lecturer, "Surplus Lines Legal Developments," National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices Annual Conference
Lecturer, "The Model Insurance Holding Companies Act," Private Briefing for Insurance Industry Analysts
Lecturer, "Actions Against Insurance Company Directors, Officers and Shareholders by State Insurance Commissioners," Insurance and Reinsurance Disputes in the Property and Casualty Insurance Industry Conference, Executive Enterprise Institute
Lecturer, "Let the Buyer Beware," Crittenden Alternative Insurance Markets Conference
Lecturer, "Global Harmonization of Insurance Regulation," A.M. Best's 10th Annual Insurance Information Conference
Lecturer, "Why Reinsurance Arbitration?" Bermuda 12th International Reinsurance Congress
Lecturer, "Final Dividend Liquidation Plans," Mealey 's Insurance Insolvency and Reinsurance Roundtable
Lecturer, "Commercial Lines Deregulation," Association of Insurance Compliance Professionals
Lecturer, "Reinsurance in the Excess and Surplus Lines Market Place," American Bar Association of America/Excess Lines Association of NY
Lecturer, "Captive Insurance Companies," Association of Professional Insurance Women
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Lecturer, "Effect of Commercial Deregulation on Rate and Form Filing," Association of Insurance Compliance Professionals
Lecturer, "Alternative Risk Transfer," Association of Professional Insurance Women
Lecturer, "Insurance Law: Understanding the ABC's," Practicing Law Institute
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