When the Reinsurance Working Party was established over 10 years ago, one of its goals was to produce a comparative study into worldwide reinsurance law by drawing on the experience and knowledge of the Working Party members. The Working Party decided to circulate questionnaires on key areas of reinsurance law and appoint an editor to draw each questionnaire’s responses together to form a Report to be commercially published.

Available Published Reports

To date, the following Reports have been published:

Report No. 1

What Is Reinsurance?

Edited by Robert Merkin (1998)

Report No. 2

Follow the Settlements

Edited by Robert Merkin (2000)

Report No. 3

The Proper Law of Reinsurance Contracts

Edited by Barlow Lyde & Gilbert LLP (2000)

Report No. 4

The Meaning of “Event” And Similar Phrases in Reinsurance Contracts

Edited by Michael Mendelowitz (2004)

Report No. 5

Evidence of Custom and Practice in the Interpretation of Reinsurance Contracts

Edited by Katherine B. Posner (2004)

Report No. 6

Cut Through, Transfer and Reconstruction Issues

Edited by Michael Gill (2005)

Purchase Information

Reports 4, 5 and 6 can be purchased by completing and returning the order form which can be accessed by clicking here. Further details and price information is contained therein.

Reports 1 to 3 can be purchased by contacting LLP Professional Publishing, a trading division of Informa Publishing Group Ltd, at LLP Professional Publishing, Gilmoora House, 57-61 Mortimer Street, London, W1N 8JX, UK. However, Reports 1, 2 and 3 are currently in the process of being revised and the second edition will be available in the future from the Reinsurance Working Party.

Other Questionnaires

The following questionnaires are currently in circulation and can be downloaded by clicking on the links below:

Questionnaire No. 7: Reinsurance Intermediaries

To date, we have received responses from the following countries :

Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Switzerland and the UK.

Questionnaire No. 8: Limitation Period in Reinsurance

To date, we have received responses from the following countries:

Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Serbia & Montenegro, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the U.S

Questionnaire No. 9:  Insurer and/or Reinsurer Insolvency

To date, we have received responses from the following countries:

Australia, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany and Serbia & Montenegro

Revised Questionnaire No. 1: What is Reinsurance?

To date, we have received responses from the following countries:

Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Israel and the UK

Deadline for responses to Questionnaire No. 9 and Revised Questionnaire No. 1 is 28 September 2007.

Further Information

For further information regarding the Questionnaires and/or Reports, please email mmcconway@blg.co.uk.