Alternative/ Self Insurance/ Risk Management: As part of ceded and assumed legal advice, analyzed and applied reinsurance towers that included self insured blocks of coverage and risk retention groups.
Asbestos: Two decades of experience involving products and non-products asbestos claims and the disputed legal issues that arise under direct policies and reinsurance contracts.
Captives/Risk Retention Groups: Several disputes involving captives / risk retention groups as cedent or reinsurer.
Catastrophes (Casualty): Disputes involving application of casualty CAT treaties to a variety of claim types such as sexual abuse claims, concussion, and COVID-19 claims, and the typical allocation issues involving event and common cause language, hours clauses, and number of occurrences.
Catastrophes (Property): Provide regular legal analysis and advice involving property CAT treaty claims, ceded and assumed.
Commercial Liability: Working knowledge of standard CGL policies and reinsurance for same.
Commutations: As in-house reinsurance counsel, experience with providing advice as to the scope and terms of commutations, as well as drafting the agreements. For prior agreements, analyzing and applying the terms of commutation agreement to subsequent claims.
Contract Wording: Extensive work on interpreting treaties and fac certs, and disputes involving the same.
Environmental/Pollution: Experience with pollution exclusions and exceptions, allocation issues pertaining pollution claims, and application of reinsurance to the same.
Excess/Surplus Lines: More than a decade of experience of legal work as outside and inside counsel involving an excess and special risks program.
Finite: Extensive work as outside and in-house counsel in the legacy space involving the use of LPTs, adverse development cover, quota shares, and familiarity with the contract wording and business purpose of these types of covers.
Insolvencies: On behalf of firm and in-house clients, have worked on several insolvencies, including proofs of claim, claims issues leading to NODs, disputed claim proceedings, and setoff.
Product Liability: Experience with disputed issues involving product claims, such as aggregates, batch clauses, and number of occurrences issues.
Third Party Administrator: Extensive work in the legacy space involving work with TPAs, disputes against TPAs and TPA contracts.
Toxic Tort: Direct and reinsurance legal work involving a variety of toxic torts such as talc, glyphosate, MTBE, silica, and lead, and the disputes issues such as trigger and allocation issues associated with toxic torts.
Workers' Compensation: Reinsurance treaty work involving cover for workers comp claims.
