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Reinsurance Expert Witnesses
Reinsurance disputes are among the most specialized in commercial practice, resolved largely in arbitration under treaty wordings and market customs that few outside the industry fully understand. Cedents and reinsurers contest the allocation of catastrophe and long-tail losses across treaty years, the meaning of follow-the-fortunes and follow-the-settlements provisions, and whether a ceding company's claims handling, reserving, or underwriting met the standards the reinsurer was entitled to expect. Other disputes concern rescission for nondisclosure, novation and cut-through issues, risk transfer in financial reinsurance, stop-loss and provider excess arrangements, and the reinsurance terms underlying insurance M&A and block transactions. The central question is usually how the contract should be applied in light of industry custom and practice and the parties' conduct over the life of the relationship.
A reinsurance expert brings that custom and practice into the record, explaining how treaty and facultative wordings are understood in the market, how underwriting information is customarily exchanged, and what reinsurers expect of a ceding company's claims and reserving practices. The expert can review claim files, underwriting submissions, bordereaux, audit reports, and allocation methodologies to determine whether a cedent's conduct and billings were consistent with the contract and accepted practice. That analysis addresses causation and quantum by separating amounts properly recoverable under the treaty from those attributable to settlements, allocations, or reserving decisions that fall outside its scope. The resulting opinions support positions on coverage, rescission, and allocation, frame the amounts in dispute, and give counsel a principled basis for rebutting an opposing expert's view of market custom before an arbitration panel.
Reinsurance expertise spans property and casualty, life, health, marine, and financial reinsurance, as well as claims, underwriting, actuarial, and transactional functions, so the right expert is one whose market experience matches the line of business and issue in dispute. The professionals we present include reinsurance executives with more than four decades of experience who have testified on novation, cut-through, and underwriting issues, an insurance consultant who has testified about 40 times on interpreting insurance and reinsurance wordings and claims management, and a reinsurance claims specialist who determined how California workers' compensation insurers should allocate cumulative injury claims between policy years and treaties. Our network also includes specialists in stop-loss and HMO reinsurance, ocean and inland marine reinsurance, health reinsurance pricing, risk transfer and financial reinsurance, and insurance M&A and insurance-linked securities. Drawing on more than 75,000 expert searches for litigators, Round Table Group can help you identify the reinsurance expert your matter requires. Let us help you find the right fit by calling us at (202) 908-4500.
Here are a few of our favorite Reinsurance Expert Witnesses:
Florida Reinsurance, Arbitration Expert #143
I have 47 years of experience, and specialize in the field of reinsurance with specific knowledge in the areas of property and casualty insurance, contract and market analysis and arbitration. I have published on such topics as various reinsurance issues. I have testified on novation issues, cut-through issues and underwriting issues. Broad range of experience in the reinsurance industry.
Texas Reinsurance, Arbitration Expert #4385
I have 45 years of experience, and specialize in the field of reinsurance with specific knowledge in the areas of contract disputes, expected underwriting and practices. I have published on such topics as reinsurance, risk management and board of directors expectations. I have testified on reinsurance and expected board of directors behavior.
Florida Stop Loss Broker, Reinsurance Expert #11487
I have 20 years of experience, and specialize in the field of self funded medical plan stop loss and provider excess loss insurance and reinsurance with specific knowledge in the areas of medical, marine, self funding, self funding, bad faith, contract conflicts, policy rescission, HMO reinsurance, provider excess loss, many types of insurance and reinsurance. I have published on such topics as insurance, reinsurance, AACO, MA, self funded medical plans, provider excess Loss and HMO reinsurance.I have never been sued, or challenged, or had a problem with any license. I am licensed in 17 states. In addition to several types…
New York Reinsurance, Property Expert #12069
I have 30 years of experience and specialize in the field of insurance and asset management, with specific knowledge of property and casualty. I have published on such topics as claims handling and reserving.
Louisiana Reinsurance Expert #14607
I have 40 years of experience, and specialize in the field of insurance and financial services with specific knowledge in the areas of life insurance, annuities, disabilitly income insurance, health insurance, pricing and dividend or experience rating refund practices, reinsurance and international work. I have published on such topics as pricing of life insurance products and Latin America insurance opportunities. My extensive work, professional and business experience enable me to efficiently analyze and identify critical issues associated with a wide variety of cases, from the not so complex to very complex cases, and enables me to identify solutions and alternatives….
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Connecticut Medical Malpractice, Reinsurance Expert #24141
I have 34 years of experience and specialize in the field of insurance consulting, with specific knowledge of medical malpractice, product liablity and reinsurance. I have published on such topics as medical malpractice, formation of captive insurance companies and general insurance consulting. I have testified 40 times on topics such as insurance and reinsurance wordings, claims management issuses, and interpreting insurance and reinsurance policy wordings.
Connecticut Disability, Claims, Reinsurance Expert #28890
I have 19 years of experience, and specialize in the field of Insurance with specific knowledge in the areas of individual disability claims, group disability claims and reinsurance agreements. I have published on such topics as settlements, claimant interview techniques and claim examiner training. I have testified 20 times on topics such as good faith claim handling, proper claim file documentation and contract interpretation.
Arizona Communication, Reinsurance Expert #31017
I have 33 years of experience, and specialize in the field of ocean and inland reinsurance with specific knowledge in the areas of transportation, cargo and hull risks.
New York Actuary, Reinsurance, Expert #36072
I have 24 years of experience, and specialize in the field of health insurance with specific knowledge in the areas of pricing, health reinsurance and underwriting.
Connecticut Reinsurance, Underwriting Expert #41240
I have 39 years of experience, and specialize in the field of insurance with specific knowledge in the areas of reinsurance, property and casualty.
Connecticut Reinsurance Expert #41700
I have 33 years of experience and specialize in the field of reinsurance and insurance, with specific knowledge of pricing, reserving and risk management.
California Reinsurance, Claims, Auditor Expert #44181
I have 40 years of experience, and specialize in the field of reinsurance claims with specific knowledge in the areas of property and casualty, liability and workers compensation. I have testified on workers compensation, large property claims handling and professional liability claims handling. Determined how California workers compensation insurers should allocate cumulative injury claims between policy years and reinsurance treaty.
New York Reinsurance, Block of Business Expert #45376
I have 19 years of experience, and specialize in the field of corporate insurance with specific knowledge in the areas of reinsurance, ILS, mergers and acquisitions, financial guaranty, and life and annuities. I have published on such topics as insurance mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and reinsurance.
California Insurance, Reinsurance, Ethics Expert #51711
I have 47 years of experience, and specialize in the field of insurance and reinsurance with specific knowledge in the areas of claims, bad faith and coverage. I have published on such topics as insurance, reinsurance and alternative dispute resolution. I have testified 50 times on topics such as insurance coverage, reinsurance and lawyers’ professional responsibility.
Florida Reinsurance Expert #52087
I have 41 years of experience and specialize in the field of reinsurance with specific knowledge in the areas of risk transfer, financial reinsurance and dispute resolution.
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Questions Attorneys Ask About Reinsurance Expert Witnesses:
Early, ideally before the arbitration panel is constituted or initial position statements are exchanged, because the expert's view of custom and practice often shapes how the dispute is framed. A consulting expert can help counsel evaluate the strength of rescission, allocation, or coverage positions and identify the underwriting, claims, and audit records most likely to matter. Early retention also gives time to assess whether the matter requires underwriting, claims, actuarial, or transactional expertise.
A reinsurance expert can address treaty and facultative contract interpretation in light of market custom, follow-the-fortunes and follow-the-settlements doctrines, utmost good faith and disclosure obligations, allocation of losses across treaty years and layers, claims handling and reserving practices, risk transfer in financial reinsurance, and audit and inspection rights. The expert can also address reinsurance issues in insurance M&A, run-off, novation, and block transactions. The appropriate scope depends on the line of business and whether the dispute centers on coverage, conduct, or quantum.
Counsel should look for direct market experience in the relevant line of business and function, such as treaty underwriting, reinsurance claims, actuarial pricing and reserving, or reinsurance intermediary work, during the period at issue. Experience serving as an arbitrator or umpire, publications on reinsurance practice, and prior testimony before arbitration panels all strengthen credibility. Counsel should also confirm that the expert's prior positions on contested doctrines are consistent with the client's theory.
On liability, the expert establishes the custom and practice against which the parties' conduct should be measured and identifies where a cedent or reinsurer departed from it. On causation and quantum, the expert separates amounts properly ceded and recoverable from those attributable to settlements, allocations, or reserving decisions outside the treaty's scope. On rebuttal, the expert can expose opinions that rely on practices from a different market, line, or era, or that ignore the parties' course of dealing.
Round Table Group works with counsel to define the case needs, including the line of business, the contract type, the forum, and the specific issues in dispute. We then source and speak with potential candidates, assessing whether their underwriting, claims, actuarial, or transactional experience bears directly on the treaty and conduct at issue. After confirming interest and availability and performing conflict checks, including prior arbitration appointments involving the parties, we present qualified options to counsel for selection.
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