Reinsurance
Our reinsurance experience includes representing clients not only in litigation, arbitration, and dispute resolution, but also in providing advice and planning on insurance and reinsurance issues arising in the normal course of business. The firm’s broad insurance practice provides its reinsurance attorneys the unique resources of close to thirty years of experience and an understanding of all aspects of the insurance marketplace, including underwriting, product development, policy wording, premium accounting, claims administration, and regulatory issues.
With offices in California, New York and London, we are well positioned to represent clients on reinsurance matters worldwide. From our London office, which is situated in the heart of the City of London, we provide continuing face to face advice to our UK clients who are in litigation in the U.S. We have represented insurers, reinsurers, and retrocessionaires throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Our partners and associates are well-versed in a wide range of reinsurance issues, including reinsurance contract formation and interpretation, regulatory restrictions, adequacy of disclosure on placement, scope of coverage, financial reporting requirements, premium and commission accounting, net retention warranties, claims handling, commutations, letters of credit, pre-answer security, allocation, number of occurrences, follow fortunes and follow settlements, right of inspection, declaratory judgment expenses, and offset.
Our attorneys have made highly regarded contributions to several prestigious publications, including Matthew Bender’s California Insurance Law and Practice, and the Tort and Insurance Law Journal. The partners and associates who specialize in this area have spoken, organized, and chaired Continuing Legal Education programs on various reinsurance topics, and are included in several prestigious listings, including the Euromoney Publications of the world’s leading insurance and reinsurance lawyers and Who’s Who in American Law.
