LEGAL HORIZONS VOLUME I 2006 Table of Contents   2006 Congressional Outlook for the Financial Services Industry Annuities: Siege Continues Health Plan Arbitration Clauses Enforced; Getting Nowhere: NCOIL Market Conduct Initiatives Who Regulates Sales of Indexed Annuities? Legislative Update: Is Comprehensive Pension Reform on the Way? An Insurable Interest in Every Employee? Fourth Circuit Approves Class Certification Denial; Contingency Commissions: Suits & Settlements Keep Coming; Insurer's Policy Rescission Claim Survives Removal Works the Second Time Around; JB Attorney to Chair E-Discovery Program CAFA deCAFAnated?; Reinsurance Industry Opposes NAIC's Comprehensive Natural Catastrophe Plan UK Court Finds No Duty to Prudently Underwrite Ceded Risks Reinsurers Raise Concerns Over NAIC's Insurer Receivership Model Act; Supreme Court to Address Appeal Rights in SLUSA Remands National Banks: Easier Access to Federal Courts; Texas & Illinois Lead Rankings of "Judicial Hellholes" South Carolina Applies Filed Rate Doctrine to Insurance Industry; Are You Sure You Want to Rescind the Policy; Supreme Court Clarifies Attorney's Fees Standard in Failed Removals Incorp. AAA Rules Sends Arbitration Challenge to Arbitrator; 7th Cir. OKs Use of Credit Rpt. by 3rd-Party Lender; Diversity Jurisdiction Found Based on Amount at Issue in Underlying Arbitration SEC Staff Recommends that Open-End ETF Shares Be Treated as Reportable Securities; ABA Seeks SEC Guidance on Oversight of Soft Dollars Results of Ind. Director Case Not Yet In; SEC Issues Statement on Financial Penalties; NYSE/NASD Rpt. Recommends Rule Change Internet Availability of Proxy Materials; NASD Proposes Amendments to Rule on Reg. Persons on Active Military Duty BD Supervisory Control Systems in Tuen with Rule 3012; NASD Takes Action Against Unsatisfactory Dealer Responses to Questions SEC Announces Corporate Penalty Guidelines Sarbanes-Oxley Round-up: Recent Whistleblower Decisions; Overtime Claims by Employees on the Rise Monitoring & Controling Employees' Off-Duty Conduct; Supremen Court to Review Retaliation Standard Sarbanes-Oxley Crimes: Four Years Later Securities Regulator Files Complaint Challenging Sales of IAs; 3rd Party Witness Can Recover Fees in Subpoena Compliance Dangerous Precedents Set in Bad Faith Action; After the Attach: Duty to Report Information Security Breach? Doe Subpoenas: Unidentified Illegal Downloads Targeted E-Discovery: Proposed Guidelines for State Trial Courts May Conflict with Proposed Amendments to Fed. Rules News & Announcements   Legal Horizons Archived Issues Current Issue Expect Focus Volume IV 2011 Fall Expect Focus Volume III 2011 Summer Expect Focus Volume II 2011 Spring Expect Focus Volume I 2011 Winter Expect Focus Volume IV 2010 Fall Expect Focus Volume III 2010 Summer Expect Focus Volume II 2010 Spring Expect Focus Volume I 2010 Winter Expect Focus Volume IV 2009 Fall Expect Focus Volume III 2009 Summer Expect Focus Volume II 2009 Spring Expect Focus Volume I 2009 Winter Expect Focus Volume IV 2008 Fall Expect Focus Volume III 2008 Summer Expect Focus Volume II 2008 Spring Expect Focus Volume I 2008 Winter Expect Focus Volume IV 2007 Fall Expect Focus Volume III 2007 Fall Expect Focus Volume II 2007 Spring Expect Focus Volume I 2007 Winter Expect Focus Volume III 2006 Fall Legal Horizons Volume II 2006 Legal Horizons Volume I 2006 Legal Horizons Volume IV 2005 Legal Horizons Volume III 2005 Legal Horizons Volume II 2005 Legal Horizons Volume I 2005 Legal Horizons Volume III 2004 Legal Horizons Volume II 2004 Legal Horizons Volume I 2004 Legal Horizons Volume II 2003 Legal Horizons Volume I 2003 Legal Horizons Volume IV 2002 Legal Horizons Volume III 2002 Legal Horizons Volume II 2002

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