All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Regulation & Administrative Law

Protecting the privacy of your personal information should remain a paramount concern!Some brokerage firms may have to close their doors with increased security costs!

The increase in the supply of reinsurance, reinsurance companies through local or foreign, puts Brazil, effectively, on the world market risks protected by insurance and provides a free and necessary competition on the domestic market, expanding the provision of coverage for insured with gains and quality...

I have openly supported online advertising.  I believe that it is critical to the future of wireless media and wireline media.  Targeted advertising is an essential component of making online advertising effective for advertisers. However, no one should risk their privacy.  Society...

The cost of certain drugs is high -- but so are the regulatory costs and the financial risks of drug development.  The process is overseen by the FDA, whose increasing risk-aversion continues to make drug development more expensive and uncertain.

For any company advertising online, what happens in the FTC effort to stimulate more aggressive self-regulation is critical.  The increased use of data collected online is leading to cutting-edge targeting of advertising that should increase sales while being more satisfying to consumers because...

(1) There is an inverse relationship between the stringency of regulation and innovation.  (2) We should seek to impose the amount of regulatory scrutiny that is necessary and sufficient to ensure environmental and public health.  (3) Regulation must be cost-effective.  Often,...

Volkswagen’s two major shareholders – Porsche and the State of Lower Saxony - are on course for a showdown at the company’s upcoming annual general meeting (AGM) to be held on 24 April 2008. Porsche’s fight with Lower Saxony stems from the so-called “VW law,” parts of which were struck down last year...

Plastic bag taxes remain a big issue internationally.  Now moves in Australia (where there is already an anecdotal take-up of woven bags) have placed the regulatory burden on retailers at the fore.  There is a political attraction in not imposing a tax, as is seen in the Australian Environment...

In an important policy document released yesterday, the government of India has sounded the possibility of increasing the limit of foreign investments in insurance and the entry of foreign investment into the retail sector.  Foreign investment in insurance has been permitted in India for a few...

HSA's are many involved with higher deductibles.  It is an attempt to lower health premiums, but with greater participation by the insureds. Depending on the plan the high premiums may be pretax and the balance left in an HSA can be rolled over into the next year and not lost like with...