WHAT WE DO / INSURANCE & REINSURANCE / REINSURANCE
“…world class technical expertise…” Chambers & Partners, 2009
The strength of Ince & Co’s reinsurance practice is widely acknowledged. Our lawyers both advise on the issues of the day and act in the largest disputes.
The group’s clients include leading reinsurance companies, corporate policyholders, intermediaries and captive insurers. Whether the arrangement is facultative or treaty, through the open market or a captive, we advise clients on everything which can be reinsured. From classes such as marine, non-marine, aviation, political risk, D&O, professional indemnity, energy construction and engineering, through to whole account programmes and ancillary protections for insurers, the firm’s reinsurance lawyers have covered the spectrum. As part of a group which handles issues from all these direct classes, they are uniquely well placed to do so.
The reinsurance group has acted in many of most important cases determining reinsurance principles: to name but a few, Dawson’s Field, The Zephyr, Balfour v Beaumont, CTI v Oceanus, Pan Atlantic v Pine Top and PCW Syndicates. Our views on such cases have been referred to at the highest levels: Pan Atlantic and WASA v Lexington. Of course, the majority of reinsurance matters on which we are instructed are resolved through confidential arbitration or by means of Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Naturally, we draw on our experience both of disputes and of the practicalities of the market in drafting reinsurance policy wordings and in responding to judicial and legislative developments.