Law and Order
This federal law requires organizations to protect the privacy and security of individuals' health information.
What is HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)?
On December 8, 2022, our Legal Assist responders' group was dubbed, “legal eagles” in a request from a board member of the First Church of God in this state.
What is Colorado?
This is something a contracting party might use as a marketing name, but it shouldn’t be used as the party’s name in a contract.
What is a DBA or assumed name?
This is the service within Lexis Nexis that contains over 10,000 templates.
What is Practical Guidance?
These should always be included when citing statistics in a marketing piece
What are the sources?
“We are the foremost advocate and thought leader for the mutual insurance industry” is this organization’s Mission Statement.
What is the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC)?
An issue of this Brotherhood Mutual publication may have been responsible for September 2024’s surge of over 300 Legal Assist requests, many of them Bylaws reviews.
What is Resilient Ministry?
This is the alternative dispute resolution mechanism primarily used between sophisticated parties to a contract within the insurance industry.
What is arbitration?
This is the partnership Lexis has, where Lexis is the aggregator for breaking news articles curated by another party.
What is Law 360?
These are often used in marketing materials to ensure that the advertising is truthful and not misleading.
What are disclaimers?
These state laws prohibit an insurer, its employees, brokers and producers from paying, allowing or giving, directly or indirectly, as an inducement to insurance, or after insurance has been effected, any discount, abatement, credit or reduction of the premium named in the policy, or valuable consideration or inducement whatever not specified in the insurance policy.
What are anti-rebating statutes?
The year that the first version of the Legal Assist service was launched.
What is 2008?
This contract provision governs what can and cannot be done with sensitive information about or owned by one or multiple parties to the contract.
What is confidentiality?
This is the generative AI tool used within Lexis to search, draft, and summarize documents.
What is Protégé?
This is the symbol used to demonstrate that words, or words and a logo, have been federally registered with the US Patent Office.
What is the encircled “R”?
Insurance professionals must regularly review these documents from state departments of insurance or bureaus to stay updated on compliance requirements and regulatory changes.
What are new laws, bulletins, circulars, or compliance notices?
A church pastor, in a now famous legal assist request, voiced concern over the church’s practice of honoring graduating high school seniors by gifting them with this item.
What is a real, full-sized sword?
This type of contract allows one party to use the intellectual property of another under certain terms and conditions.
What is a licensing agreement?
When researching something in Lexis Nexis, under “Jurisdictions,” you must choose whether you want to find cases within these two different levels, or both.
What is federal and state?
This is language within the marketing piece to attribute ownership of the material to the author.
What is the copyright notice?
With over 100 years of experience, this organization serves as the nation’s most comprehensive source for workers compensation data, insights, and solutions.
What is the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI)?
In 2024, the Legal Assist team responded to 512 questions related to this topic, which was the most frequently submitted question type that year.
What is Child Protection?
This functions as a contract review, execution, and archival tool.
What is DocuSign CLM?
Lexis Nexis contains the statutes and case law for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and these U.S. territories.
What are Guam, Northern Marianas, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands?
This is the primary color value designated by our Marketing Department for use in the majority of our marketing materials.
What is Brotherhood Mutual Blue?