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Going into the year 2025, the insurance industry faces a landscape marked by complexity and uncertainty. In this summary, learn more about the top-of-mind insurance issues and what to expect in the areas of digital disruption, GenAI, reinsurance trends, emerging risks, economic trends, regulatory updates, evolving tax roles and responsibilities, and more.

With the new administration in the U.S. and its focus on various parts of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the TCJA) and the estate tax, changes are expected amid the balancing of competing considerations. In this 10-minute interview, Jason Kohout, partner and co-chair of the Family Offices group at Foley & Lardner, and John Strom, federal lobbyist and member of Foley & Lardner’s Public Policy & Government Relations group discuss the key parts of the TCJA and whether the TCJA’s doubled estate and gift tax exemption will be extended and potentially made permanent.

Being a fiduciary for your organization’s retirement plan doesn’t have to be complicated or overwhelming. However, it does require careful oversight to mitigate risk and help participants meet their retirement goals. With the use of this checklist that should be reviewed on an annual basis, employers can better manage their retirement plan responsibilities.

Get ready to comply with the five new data privacy laws that will come into effect in January 2025 in Delaware, Nebraska, Iowa, New Hampshire, and New Jersey. With the active enforcement by several states’ Attorneys General and a trend toward broader applicability, data privacy compliance is becoming increasingly important and complex. Companies should carefully evaluate whether they are subject to any laws coming into effect and take steps to ensure compliance.

As the new U.S. federal landscape takes shape, this outlook report is designed to provide key insights into policy implications and how they may impact various industries in 2025, including agriculture, energy and environment, healthcare, tax, technology, trade, and transportation and infrastructure.

Unless your entity qualifies for 1 of the 23 exemptions, all entities—including limited liability companies and limited partnerships—created prior to January 1, 2024 are required to file reports under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) by January 1, 2025. Willful violations can result in civil and criminal penalties for failure to comply with the CTA requirements. Set forth here is a summary of the CTA beneficial ownership regulations, the types of entities that are exempt, and the filing requirements that include disclosure of information about the entities’ beneficial owners.

If you’re a business owner of a registered entity such as a corporation, partnership, or LLC, or the trustee or beneficiary of a trust that owns such an entity, you may be subject to a reporting obligation under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) that was enacted on January 1, 2021. By mandating the disclosure of beneficial ownership information, the CTA seeks to enhance transparency and accountability while curbing illicit activities such as money laundering, terrorist financing, and tax fraud.

Cyber threats are seen as the third most impactful risk to businesses over the next three years, after the cost of capital and economic downturns, respectively. Threat actors are not only deploying new tactics using generative artificial intelligence (AI) to conduct more targeted and sophisticated attacks, but they are also advancing familiar threats like ransomware with increased severity. The evolving regulatory landscape and the increasing adoption of cloud software also pose new challenges for cyber leaders.

At its core, the New York LLC Transparency Act (NYLTA) aims to bolster transparency and combat unlawful activities by requiring the disclosure of beneficial ownership information (BOI) by limited liability companies (LLCs) organized under or operating within New York. While the NYLTA was initially slated to take effect during 2024, an amendment has delayed its effective date until January 1, 2026.

For board members and non-executive directors, generative AI stands as a pivotal innovation that offers unprecedented opportunities to drive business value, improve productivity, reach broader audiences, streamline operations, and help address complicated global issues. However, it also raises complex business and ethical questions. To gain the full trust of stakeholders and customers, AI systems need to be designed with governance, risk, legal, and ethical frameworks in mind.