Insurance/Reinsurance Disputes
Our Insurance/Reinsurance Disputes practice has achieved international recognition for its quality, experience, knowledge and results. In their annual publication
America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Chambers & Partners consistently ranks Sidley’s Insurance/Reinsurance Disputes practice in the top-tier of firms who practice in this field.
The International Who’s Who of Insurance & Reinsurance Lawyers also identifies members of the group as leading lawyers in the area. Our lawyers have the knowledge and insight that come from decades of experience practicing in this area.
With over thirty lawyers practicing in the area firmwide, we have the resources to handle the most complex, high-profile and contentious disputes. A representative list of our recent cases illustrates the point:
- Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s v. Westchester Fire Ins. Co. – holding that arbitrators, and not courts, decide whether a cedent’s arbitration demand against multiple reinsurers under multiple layers and wordings of a reinsurance treaty program gives rise to a single arbitration or multiple arbitrations
- Employers Ins. Co. v. Century Indem. Co. – holding that arbitrators, and not courts, decide whether a cedent’s arbitration demand against a reinsurer under multiple layers of a reinsurance treaty program gives rise to a single arbitration or multiple arbitrations
- American Employers’ Ins. Co. v. Swiss Reinsurance Am. Corp. – holding that the follow-the-fortunes doctrine applies when a reinsurer challenges the cedent’s allocation of a settlement under multi-year policies, and when a reinsurer claims that the cedent failed to investigate pollution sites before allocating settlement amounts to them
- Commercial Union Ins. Co. v. Swiss Reinsurance Am. Corp. – holding that the follow-the-fortunes doctrine applies when a reinsurer challenges the cedent’s allocation of a settlement under multi-year policies
- National Am. Ins. Co. v. SCOR Reinsurance Co. – reversing lower court decision and compelling arbitration of a reinsurance dispute
- North River Ins. Co. v. ACE American Reinsurance Co. – affirming summary judgment in favor of cedent and holding that the follow-the-fortunes doctrine applies when a reinsurer challenges the cedent’s allocation of a multi-policy settlement with the policyholder
Our lawyers speak at and chair leading industry seminars and conferences, including those sponsored by ARIAS-US, Mealey’s Publications and the Reinsurance Association of America.
