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
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