Insurance

INSURANCE

Ranked by Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers as the "top insurance regulatory firm around," the Watkins Ludlam Winter & Stennis, P.A. Insurance Practice Group is able to respond decisively, and cost efficiently, to any opportunity or problem that a client in the insurance industry may present.

Representative activities of our Insurance Practice Group include:

  • Organization and licensing of insurance holding companies, life and health, property and casualty and workers compensation insurers, HMOs and agencies.

  • Acquisition and disposition of insurers and insurance agencies.

  • Insurance holding company systems filings.

  • Licensing of foreign insurers to do business in Mississippi and obtaining surplus lines authority.

  • Public offerings of SEC registered companies and registered and limited offerings of securities including insurer prospectuses and other offering documents.

  • Representation of insurers, HMOs and agents before the Mississippi Commissioner of Insurance with respect to rates and filings, approval of specialty programs, and disputes of various kinds.

  • Development of life, health and casualty insurance policies to comply with the insurance statutes and regulations of a number of states.

  • Reinsurance contract negotiation and drafting and obtaining insurance department approval.

  • Formation of purchasing groups under the Federal Liability Risk Retention Act and qualification of the purchasing groups in several states.

  • Life and health insurance guaranty association representation.

  • Representation of rehabilitators and liquidators of insolvent insurers.

  • Representation of insurers and HMOs before the Mississippi State Tax Commission with respect to premium tax, retaliatory tax and other tax matters and disputes.

  • Government relations and legislative matters.

Attorneys
Laura L. Hill
Robert B. House
Craig N. Landrum
David L. Martin



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