ACI's Reinsurance Agreements Conference

Foley Partner Brett Ludwig  will be presenting in a session called “Anticipating Reinsurance Disputes: Contract Wordings That Facilitate Resolutions” on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 during the American Conference Institute’s Reinsurance Agreements: New Approaches for Ensuring Comprehensive and Secure Business Arrangements in a Changing Environment conference at the Flatotel Hotel in New York City.

Brett will be joined by Peter Szendro, Senior Vice President & Reinsurance Counsel of Willis Re Inc.; James Veach, Partner at Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass; and Kevin Helewa, Vice President and Associate General Counsel of Everest Reinsurance Company. The presentation will focus on: 

• How and when to use tiered arbitration wordings to allow for litigation


• Addressing disclosure and evidentiary matters in arbitration agreements


• Determining the qualification requirements and selection process for arbitration panel members


• Providing for consolidated proceedings


• Confirming or objecting to final awards


• How the arbitration agreement relates to other contract provisions:
  
  
  
  
  
  • Errors and omissions
  
  
  • Access to records