The attorneys of Low & Cohen, PLLC possess the highest level of experience, knowledge, and expertise necessary to represent insurance companies, insurance producers, and other insurance industry participants in the full range of matters arising in the complex world of insurance regulation.
The Firm has substantial and long-standing contacts with the Arizona Department of Insurance, as well as other state agencies involved with insurance issues and concerns. This enables us to communicate directly with the appropriate agency representatives, and to achieve the most fair and efficient solutions.
This also enables us to be familiar with both the "published" and "unpublished" rules and guidelines that often govern how the Department of Insurance treats particular regulatory matters.
The Firm's Insurance Regulation practice includes counsel and representation in the following specific areas, among others:
Formation and admission of insurance companies
Re-domestication of insurance companies into, or out of, Arizona
Formation and licensing of insurance producers and other insurance licensees
Compliance issues relating to rate, rule and form filings
Surplus lines compliance matters
Producer and other licensee discipline, including representing licensees in connection with administrative investigations and hearings before the Office of Administrative Hearings to defend against denials, suspensions, revocations, and other types of disciplinary actions
Financial and market conduct examinations of insurance companies, including assisting clients in preparing for such examinations
Holding Company Act compliance, including inter-company and affiliate transactions, acquisitions or mergers involving Arizona domestic insurers, annual registration statements, and disclaimers of control
Reinsurance transactions, including counsel related to structuring and documenting reinsurance transactions, and obtaining necessary regulatory approvals
Reinsurance litigation, arbitration and mediation
Withdrawal from the business of insurance in Arizona, and dissolution of insurance companies
Matters related to the rehabilitation, conservation and liquidation of insurers
All forms of corporate and business transactions involving participants in the insurance industry
