Brian A. Pipkin
Member
Brian Pipkin provides legal counsel and regulatory guidance to insurance companies, insurance agencies and producers, health plans, managed care companies, and other insurance and health care related entities, on a national basis. He has extensive appellate experience in cases before the federal courts of appeals, state supreme and intermediate appellate courts, and federal and state administrative agencies.
Experience
- Advises clients on company formation, admissions, expansions, mergers and acquisitions, redomestications, and other corporate issues.
- Assists clients with holding company and group supervision and solvency related issues and filings, including acquisition of control statements (Form A), annual registration statements and amendments (Form B), prior notice of transaction statements (Form D), Enterprise Risk Reports (Form F), Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA) Summary Reports, and Corporate Governance Annual Disclosures (CGAD).
- Advises clients on a wide range of insurance regulatory compliance matters related to advertising, products, claims administration, sales practices, and payment of commissions.
- Represents companies in financial and market conduct examinations and other investigation or enforcement proceedings before state insurance departments.
- Assists in the development of new and unique insurance products, including drafting policy forms, form and rate filing, and obtaining regulatory approval.
- Represents producers and agencies in licensing, disciplinary, and compliance matters.
- Manages large multi-state research projects for clients regarding insurance regulatory and compliance issues.
- Monitors issues for and advocates on behalf of clients at meetings of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) and other industry meetings and events.
- Represents and advises clients in appellate matters before state and federal courts and administrative agencies.
- Clerked for the Honorable Robert L. Brown, Associate Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, from 2008 to 2010.
Representative Experience
- Farrell-Cooper Mining Co. v. U.S. Dep’t of Interior, 864 F.3d 1105 (10th Cir. 2017)
- Stephens v. Jessup, 793 F.3d 941 (8th Cir. 2015)
- Our Community, Our Dollars v. Bullock, 452 S.W.3d 552 (Ark. 2014)
- Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharm., Inc. v. State of Arkansas, 432 S.W.3d 563 (Ark. 2014) (amicus curiae)
- Bedell v. Williams, 386 S.W.3d 493 (Ark. 2012)
Professional Recognition
- The Best Lawyers in America©: Appellate Practice (2021)
- Mid-South Super Lawyers Rising Star: Business/Corporate (2014-2020)
- Top Score on the Arkansas Bar Exam (July 2008)
- Arkansas Bar Foundation John & Ruth H. Brunson Law Review Award (2007)
Involvement
- Arkansas Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Auxiliary Board Member, Keep Little Rock Beautiful
- Associate, Judge Henry Woods Inn of Court
News & Articles
Firm News
Articles
- MAY 27, 2020 UPDATE: Survey of State Insurance Department COVID-19 Regulatory Actions
- MAY 12, 2020 UPDATE: Survey of State Insurance Department COVID-19 Regulatory Actions
- MAY 5, 2020 UPDATE: Survey of State Insurance Department COVID-19 Regulatory Actions
- APRIL 28, 2020 UPDATE: Survey of State Insurance Department COVID-19 Regulatory Actions
- APRIL 24, 2020 UPDATE: Survey of State Insurance Department COVID-19 Regulatory Actions
- APRIL 21, 2020 UPDATE: Survey of State Insurance Department COVID-19 Regulatory Actions
- APRIL 17, 2020 UPDATE: Survey of State Insurance Department COVID-19 Regulatory Actions
- APRIL 14, 2020 UPDATE: Survey of State Insurance Department COVID-19 Regulatory Actions
- APRIL 10, 2020 UPDATE: Survey of State Insurance Department COVID-19 Regulatory Actions
- APRIL 7, 2020 UPDATE: Survey of State Insurance Department COVID-19 Regulatory Actions
- Auto Insurers Asked to Waive Commercial Use Exclusion during COVID-19 Shutdown
- APRIL 3, 2020 UPDATE: Survey of State Insurance Department COVID-19 Regulatory Actions
- MARCH 31, 2020 UPDATE: Survey of State Insurance Department COVID-19 Regulatory Actions
- MARCH 25, 2020 UPDATE: Survey of State Insurance Department COVID-19 Regulatory Actions
- Survey of State Insurance Department COVID-19 Regulatory Actions