May 13, 2024
By Richard Manning and Fred Selck
A new class of anti-obesity medications (AOMs) called GLP-1s have been shown to be highly effective at helping people lose weight. Given the efficacy of GLP-1s, and the significant long-term costs associated with treating obesity and its related diseases, there is increasing pressure on public and private health insurers to cover AOMs. This white paper by Richard Manning and Fred Selck finds that when current state market dynamics and assumptions are included in precise financial analytics, treating obesity does not present the threat to Medicare’s financial solvency that other recently published analyses suggest.
Jennifer Vanderhart, Steven Schwartz, Richard Brady, and Aminta Raffalovich authored a chapter in The Guide to Damages in International Arbitration – Sixth Edition. The guide is designed to assist the global arbitration community in understanding damages issues. The chapter is titled “The Use of Econometric and Statistical Analysis in Damages.”
Managing Directors Stuart Dekker, Joe Skilton, and Eddie Tobis authored the chapter “Compensation for Expropriation” in the 9th Edition of The Investment Treaty Arbitration Review.
Maintaining Ethics & Integrity in a Volatile Economic Environment Means Spotting the Banana Peels
Periods of economic pressure are often marked by increased rates of corporate fraud that can happen despite the presence of risk management frameworks. In this article published by Corporate Compliance Insights, Hitesh Patel offers a modern, holistic risk view that can help spot the pitfalls lurking in the way.