NEW YORK (AUG. 6, 2024) – William Latza, a go-to attorney in New York’s legal and regulatory market for insurance, is the newest member of Saul Ewing’s Insurance Practice. In joining the firm, he brings clients his insight from his four decades of experience in private practice for the insurance industry and most recently as general counsel-insurance for Lemonade, Inc., an InsurTech insurance company. He is resident in the New York office.
“We are thrilled to welcome Bill to Saul Ewing,” said Frederic M. Garsson, co-chair of the firm’s Insurance Practice. “Bill has put in the time to develop the deep knowledge that insurance companies need to navigate the complex web of regulatory requirements that vary state by state. He is a major force as an insurance regulatory attorney and is respected alike by insurers, producers, regulators, fellow attorneys, actuaries and other players in the industry.”
Mr. Latza provides life and non-life insurance and reinsurance companies with regulatory advice and assistance. His experience includes counseling well-known insurance companies on the regulatory challenges they face when they develop new insurance programs, expand into new markets, change their organizational structure or face financial challenges.
Through his work at Lemonade, Mr. Latza navigated the company though novel and evolving issues such as the use of artificial intelligence and algorithmic underwriting, and later he advised on regulatory and legal issues connected with its national and international expansion, ongoing insurance operations and inward investments. Before he led Lemonade’s legal department, he served as external counsel to the then startup, and he was key in persuading New York’s notoriously stringent regulatory authorities to grant the company its domestic license to operate using an innovative technology platform that digitizes the entire insurance process.
At Saul Ewing, Mr. Latza is focusing primarily on matters including reinsurance, statutory accounting and InsurTech. He also has extensive experience guiding insurance and reinsurance companies through the legal and regulatory requirements that arise in highly complex acquisitions and financially motivated transactions. Additionally, he advises insurance groups on holding company and financial condition regulations, and issues arising with alternative and capital markets risk transfer. Mr. Latza also guides companies and boards of directors through the legal and regulatory hurdles they confront with discontinuing operations, operating in the zone of insolvency or other troubled-company situations.
Mr. Latza earned a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. He was awarded a graduate fellowship to the London School of Economics and Political Science and has a B.S. from University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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