Efficient, pragmatic, and cost-effective risk management and resolution.
Husch Blackwell’s industry-leading reinsurance practice combines an extensive breadth of experience with nationwide coverage to efficiently handle reinsurance matters of any size, scope, or complexity.
Reinsurance counseling
Our pre-dispute counseling services are designed to conserve our clients’ money and time. We partner with our clients to conduct investigations and prepare comprehensive coverage and claim analyses to assist clients in making early, informed decisions about the merits of potential claims and defenses.
Reinsurance litigation, arbitration, and mediation
When disputes are unavoidable, our reinsurance attorneys nimbly transition to court, arbitration, or other alternative dispute resolution forums to aggressively and unrelentingly defend our client’s position. Given our geographic breadth, we have litigated in federal and state courts throughout the country; appeared in arbitrations convened under the AAA, JAMs, ARIAS, and ad hoc rules; and mediated before the industry’s most prominent mediators.
Our tier one reinsurance attorneys have been at the forefront of the highest-profile, highest-stakes reinsurance litigation for more than 30 years. They counsel insurers (including captives), reinsurers, brokers, and agents in connection with a litany of different lines of business, including property and casualty, life, accident and health (including long-term care), workers’ compensation, inland marine, and finite. Our team has arbitrated, litigated, and mediated the significant procedural and substantive issues that have vexed the insurance and reinsurance industry over the past several decades, including disputes relating to the recapture of business; contingent and traditional business interruption claims (including COVID-19); disputes relating to misrepresentation, non-disclosure, and rescission; complex issues of contract construction and underwriting intent, including number of occurrences, the “Bellefonte” defense, and ECO; alleged costs of climate change; sexual molestation and abuse; bad-faith run-off practices; and arbitrability and post-arbitration award actions. In addition, our depth of reinsurance litigation and insurance litigation experience spans all work that is “insurance-company adjacent,” meaning all commercial litigation/arbitration on behalf of an insurer or reinsurer.
Bottom line: whether a matter can or should be resolved quickly or needs to be litigated/arbitrated, our reinsurance attorney team is well-positioned to partner with our clients to achieve their desired outcome.