Arbitration and Mediation

Mr. Fowler's experience includes:

  • Arbitrations include the following types of issues: if you have specific questions, please email or call
    • Underwriting issues, of both insurers and reinsurers
    • Mortgage insurance and reinsurance
    • Loss allocation issues
    • Diverse and complex procedural issues, including consolidation of related proceedings, prehearing security, privileged or confidential documents/communications, etc.
    • Sunset and commutation clauses
    • Reinstatement clauses
    • Letters of credit
    • Portfolio transfers
    • Accounting and actuarial issues
    • Adequacy and timeliness of notice
    • Collateral estoppel and issue preclusion
    • Administrative servicing contracts, including claims adjustment, information technology, etc.
    • Workers compensation carve out agreement and reinsurance thereof
    • Earthquakes, hurricanes and other natural disasters
    • Misappropriations and other acts of malfeasance
    • Fidelity, surety, performance bonds
    • Boiler and machinery losses
    • Coverage of loss adjustment and legal expense, both on the direct and reinsurer side
    • Financial and finite reinsurance
    • Adequacy of reinsurance placement information
    • Coverage and evaluation of specific individual large losses, both domestic and international
    • The operations, management and supervision of managing general agents/underwriters
    • Agency profit sharing and other contractual disputes
  • Retired President of a multi-billion dollar, global insurer/reinsurer (including over 50 individual companies)
  • Former officer of property-casualty, life, reinsurance companies, both domestic and international
  • Speaker and Panelist at ARIAS-US, Reinsurance Association of America, and Mealey’s and other seminars on insurance / reinsurance arbitration
  • Member of the Insurance and Reinsurance Dispute Resolution Task Force on arbitration improvements
  • Former Co-Chair Board of Trustees: Center for Conflict Resolution at Salisbury University

 

Note: Consulting services or expert witness testimony not offered.

 

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