Insurance and Reinsurance

Overview

Choate represents reinsurers, insurers, and intermediaries in some of their most important and complex coverage disputes, litigation, and arbitration. We have a leading international reinsurance trial/arbitration practice, with expertise in litigating and arbitrating disputes concerning property catastrophe reinsurance (hurricanes, wildfires, winter storm losses, industry loss warranties, catastrophe bonds), life and annuity reinsurance, financial reinsurance, health reinsurance, and asbestos and other environmental losses. Our direct-side coverage work is nationally recognized, including our expertise involving disputes concerning opioid litigation, asbestos, pollution, mass casualty incidents, and rescission based on policyholder misrepresentations.

Why Choate for Insurance & Reinsurance?

Successfully represented reinsurer in arbitration arising from educator misconduct losses incurred by school district.
Represent cedent with respect to reinsurance reimbursement of property losses from a Chinese reinsurer.
Represent insurer with regard to nationwide opioid exposures involving coverage advice for more than 3,000 underlying lawsuits and billions of dollars in potential exposure.
Represent insurer in connection with lawsuits against gun owners while seeking to hold gun industry liable for mass shootings and other gun violence.
Successfully represented GuideOne in a “bet the company” case against a British reinsurance broker.
Successfully represented Symetra Life Insurance in dispute involving reinsurance reimbursement for in- and out-of network dialysis treatments, including a Sixth Circuit dispute concerning arbitral activity.
Represent global insurer with respect to losses in Australia wildfires and Asian floods.
Represent global insurer with respect to worldwide COVID-19 reinsurance claims.
Represent leading insurer with respect to a failure to disclose significant losses as part of a loss portfolio transfer agreement.
Represent global insurer in a constellation of reinsurance disputes adverse to foreign reinsurers and pools in connection with sex abuse losses.
Represent leading insurer in a reinsurance placement dispute with an Asian reinsurer.
Represent insurer in a large life reinsurance rate dispute involving recapture.
Represent Liberty Mutual in connection with all of their nationwide silica exposures.
Successfully represented global insurer in an arbitration proceeding concerning aviation and airport liability policies.
Represent mutual insurer as outside counsel and corporate counsel in numerous matters, including a property arbitration worth more than $25M.