Insurance and Reinsurance

The Insurance and Reinsurance Practice Group at Prince Lobel is comprised of skilled professionals with deep knowledge and experience in all aspects of insurance and reinsurance consultation, litigation, and arbitration.  The group represents insurers, reinsurers, captive insurers, managers, self-insurers, agents, and intermediaries located in the United States, Bermuda, the United Kingdom, and in other European countries, in a wide variety of matters.  Our comprehensive industry background and broad experience is reflected in a pragmatic and results-oriented approach to all of our work, whether involving the design and implementation of insurance or reinsurance programs, forensic investigation, coverage and dispute assessment, or litigation and arbitration. 

Our services include:

• Analyzing and developing insurance and reinsurance contracts and related business documentation
• Evaluating and analyzing insurance and reinsurance coverage issues
• Advising on regulatory matters
• Consulting and assisting on auditing issues and processes
• Litigating, arbitrating, and mediating complex insurance and reinsurance matters

For more information on how Prince Lobel's Insurance & Reinsurance Practice Group can help you achieve your goals, please contact Group Chair Mitchell S. King at mking@PrinceLobel.com or 617 456 8010.  

Representative Matters

Insurance Litigation

• Defense of alleged bad faith claims practices made by claimant against media liability insurer 
• Coverage under unconfirmed (missing) CGL policies for manufactured gas plant operations
• Application of the "absolute pollution exclusion" to alleged perchlorate contamination from blasting activities
• Exercise of association rights under excess liability policies for alleged PCB contamination
• Silicosis insurance coverage and bad faith in California State Court
• Asbestos coverage under excess policies including litigation of short term “stub” policies, exhaustion of underlying limits, and maintenance of underlying policies
• Coverage for alleged sexual assault
• Medical malpractice insurance, defending bad faith claim by assignee of insured
• Coverage actions under accident and health policies in Massachusetts, Texas, Florida, and South Carolina
• Establishing expected and intended damages from coal gasification plant
• National coordinating coverage counsel with respect to numerous professional sports disability policy programs and litigated coverage actions all over the US

Reinsurance

• Coverage for declaratory judgment expenses under facultative certificates
• Classification of facultative business and breadth of duty of utmost good faith
• Obligation of London reinsurers to arbitrate in Massachusetts in the face of competing UK arbitration demands and incomplete and contested treaty documentation
• Scope of reinsurers’ obligations under medical stop-loss business
• Set-off issues in Massachusetts insolvency proceeding
• Scope of coverage advice to large US cedent and development of consistent ceding approach and rationale
• Coverage disputes, collections and arbitrations for large US cedent regarding coverage for toxic tort, environmental and breast implant claims
• Represented major US insurer in connection with business written on its behalf by an MGA and its rights under associated reinsurance programs, and arbitrated disputes in connection with such programs
• Arbitrated disputes arising from Workers Compensation Carve-Out business
• Represented retrocedent against non-paying retrocessionaires under casualty clash treaty
• Represented cedents and reinsurers with respect to scope of obligations for multiple site environmental settlements
• Represented cedents and reinsurers in various follow-the-settlements disputes