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In most states when a child turns 18, he or she is legally recognized as an adult. And without having certain legal documents in place such as a durable power of attorney for healthcare, parents may lose their ability to fully support and care for their college-age children in the event of a medical emergency or other circumstances. By knowing which documents should be executed, parents and their adult children can avoid the restrictions of various privacy laws that can prevent timely care.

This mid-year addendum to the 2025 Commercial Property and Casualty Market Outlook updates the insurance market trends, summarizes current market conditions, and forecasts important developments that are starting to emerge.

In a time when disruption is the norm, business resilience has become a strategic imperative. Here are critical steps business owners and leaders can take to help identify vulnerabilities, bolster preparedness, and drive smart, sustainable growth.

Nonprofits are facing increasing budget and personnel uncertainty due to both a decline in donations and threats of cuts to government funding. As a result, volunteers will become even more important in helping nonprofits fulfill their missions. However, even the most well-intentioned and qualified volunteers can expose organizations and philanthropic families to legal, financial, and reputational risks—especially if the volunteers are placed in unsuitable roles or lack proper screening, training, and supervision.

As with any technology, change happens gradually, not overnight. And GenAI is no different. While it may seem to many that the AI enterprise adoption is at a standstill because the financial benefit is not yet evident, important steps are happening behind the scenes that are setting the stage for broader scale adoption and monetization in the not-too-distant future. In this report, we address the common questions about the generative AI theme.

College graduation is an exciting event, but it can be filled with uncertainty with the start of a job that brings new responsibilities and decisions. To help with the transition, it's time to plan your financial future. To get started, here are helpful tips on budgeting and spending money wisely, checking your credit score, saving for retirement, understanding your company’s benefits, monitoring and protecting your online activity (both financials and social posts), building your business skills, and more.

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.

Enhancing risk management is no longer optional but essential when the global landscape is fraught with uncertainties and disruptions that include changing business dynamics, shifting trade tensions, a tough tariff environment, geopolitical conflicts, and a volatile economic landscape. Building resilience across all aspects of the business is imperative now and for the long-term.

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.

Today’s heightened geopolitical risk environment—characterized by volatility, uncertainty, and a widening range of possible outcomes—has become a more significant driver of operational and strategic risks to trade, finance, and investment than in prior periods. Drawing on the comprehensive World Risk Review analysis of 197 countries and territories, this report provides a succinct summary of the most crucial information that can help your organization be equipped to adapt its risk management strategies in response to today’s geopolitical and geoeconomic landscape.