Insurance Reinsurance
Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge provides a full range of legal services to a broad client base. Our clients span all segments of the insurance industry, including property and casualty insurers, life and health insurers, reinsurers, health maintenance organizations, agents, brokers and reinsurance intermediaries, lenders, investment banks, state insurance regulators, debtors and creditors of insolvent insurers, and trade associations.
Attorneys in our Insurance and Reinsurance Department represent clients in a wide range of matters, including:
- Reinsurance arbitration and litigation
- Reinsurance transactions
- Formation and licensing of insurers and reinsurers
- Excess and surplus lines
- State regulatory matters
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Receiverships and representation of creditors in insurance company insolvencies
- Public and private financing
- International/insurance-related transactions
- Product development, including policy and insurance contract wording
- State legislative representation
- Commercial litigation and administrative proceedings
- Complex, high-stakes coverage and claims matters
- Real estate and securitization matters
- Federal and state tax matters
- ERISA, executive compensation and employee benefits
- Intellectual property matters
As part of a full service firm, the Department represents international and domestic clients before the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) and the Insurance Departments of the various states. The Department participates in the periodic meetings of the NAIC and NCOIL, and serves on a multitude of advisory and other committees established to address critical issues confronting the insurance industry and its individual clients. Through its working relationship with these regulators, the Department is well equipped to recognize, address and resolve various regulatory issues as they arise. Accordingly, the Department participates in the crafting of insurance legislation and monitors, on a daily basis, the ever-changing laws, rules and regulations which govern our industry.
For further information on Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge’s Insurance and Reinsurance Department, and Excess and Surplus Lines Matters in particular, please contact:
Alan J. Levin, Co-Chair (860) 541-7747
David Kendall, Co-Chair +44 (0) 20 7556 4529
John P. Dearie, Jr., Editor (212) 756-0255
Nick Pearson (212) 756-0275
Ambereen Salamat +44 (0) 20 7556 4619
Alan J. Levin, Co-Chair (860) 541-7747
Alan J. Levin, Chair, Insurance and Reinsurance Department, practices in the areas of insurance and reinsurance and general corporate law. He represents clients in matters affecting the insurance and reinsurance industry and counsels insurers, reinsurers, regulators, agents and brokers, reinsurance intermediaries, lenders, investment banks and trade associations. Mr. Levin has been involved with raising corporate capital to be deployed at Lloyd’s of London; has represented insurance companies as investors and lenders and investment bankers and insurance companies in public offerings and private placements; and has represented clients at administrative hearings before state insurance departments. He has also represented clients affected by state legislative and regulatory developments, as well as lobbying regulators and legislators. Mr. Levin has also structured and implemented plans designed to create new services and products in the health care industry. He received his undergraduate degree from Clark University and his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School. Mr. Levin is admitted to practice in Connecticut.
David Kendall, Co-Chair +44 (0) 20 7556 4529
David has been with the firm since 1988. He is co-chair of the firm's Insurance & Reinsurance Department and is based in London. He specializes in all aspects of insurance and reinsurance, including the London and Bermuda insurance markets, insurance coverage disputes, reinsurance disputes, insurance/reinsurance run-off and insolvency, arbitration and Commercial Court litigation. He has extensive experience of Bermuda form arbitrations in London. He speaks extensively on current issues in insurance and reinsurance law in the UK and overseas. He is named as one of the world's best insurance and reinsurance lawyers in the Legal Media Group's Guide to the Best of the Best 2007.
John P. Dearie, Jr. is a nationally and internationally respected lawyer with over 20 years of experience in the insurance and reinsurance industry. He has served numerous overseas insurers in England, France, Germany, Japan and Finland as their U.S. regulatory counsel, and served as chief U.S. lobbyist and legislative liaison for the Institute of London Underwriters. In this capacity, he was able to achieve significant breakthroughs in the areas of reinsurance accreditation and surplus lines approval. Mr. Dearie has been a member of various industry advisory committees to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) and state insurance departments, and has served as legal advisor to the financial services industry in the areas of reinsurance trusts and letters of credit. He has appeared as a guest lecturer and panelist in numerous insurance conferences and workshops and testified before the NAIC and various state insurance departments. Mr. Dearie received his B.S. from Georgetown University, and received his J.D. from Fordham Law School. He is admitted to practice in New York.
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Nick Pearson (212) 756-0275
Nick Pearson has represented United States and foreign clients in the formation, acquisition, sale and licensing of insurance and reinsurance companies and brokers. He has served as outside general counsel to both admitted and nonadmitted insurers. Mr. Pearson has practiced extensively before state insurance departments and has regularly served on advisory committees to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and various state insurance departments. He has advised clients in the formation of captive insurance companies and risk retention groups and in excess and surplus lines regulation. Mr. Pearson is experienced in reinsurance arbitration and has negotiated commutations and assisted clients in the analysis and preparation of reinsurance agreements. He has conducted international insurance and reinsurance fraud investigations leading to successful criminal prosecutions and contract rescission. Mr. Pearson is also experienced in insurance insolvency matters in both the United States and the U.K. He is a widely-known speaker at industry functions, his commentary is sought by both industry and business publications and he has published articles and papers concerning various aspects of the insurance industry. Mr. Pearson received his B.A. from Duke University and his J.D. from Duke University School of Law. He is admitted to practice in both New York and New Jersey.
Ambereen Salamat +44 (0) 20 7556 4619
Ambereen Salamat is a corporate and regulatory lawyer qualified in the UK. She represents a broad spectrum of entities involved in insurance and reinsurance business in the UK and abroad on regulatory issues, acquisitions and disposals, products and policy wordings, commercial agreements and alternative risk transfer transactions. She has extensive experience of advising on what constitutes the carrying on of insurance and reinsurance business in the UK and the different methods of entry into the European insurance and reinsurance markets including the authorization requirements to be complied with. She has advised on most aspects of ongoing regulation of insurance and reinsurance companies in the UK and has acted on a number of restructurings of insurance business so that they no longer constitute the carrying on of insurance business in the UK. She has advised on at least a dozen transfers of life and non-life business under Part VII of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (as well as under the preceding legislation) and acted on a number of notable alternative risk transfer transactions. She writes and speaks extensively on insurance and reinsurance issues.