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Work Experience
Current director of an insurance or reinsurance company: No
Former director of an insurance or reinsurance company: No
Current officer of an insurance or reinsurance company: No
Former officer of an insurance or reinsurance company: No
Insurance Company: Legal Department, Ceded Reinsurance Department
Reinsurance Department: Legal Department
Law Firm Experience: Counsel, Associate
Breakdown of Experience
Alternative/ Self Insurance/ Risk Management: As part of ceded and assumed legal advice, analyzed and applied reinsurance towers that included self insured blocks of coverage and risk retention groups.
Asbestos: Two decades of experience involving products and non-products asbestos claims and the disputed legal issues that arise under direct policies and reinsurance contracts.
Captives/Risk Retention Groups: Several disputes involving captives / risk retention groups as cedent or reinsurer.
Catastrophes (Casualty): Disputes involving application of casualty CAT treaties to a variety of claim types such as sexual abuse claims, concussion, and COVID-19 claims, and the typical allocation issues involving event and common cause language, hours clauses, and number of occurrences.
Catastrophes (Property): Provide regular legal analysis and advice involving property CAT treaty claims, ceded and assumed.
Commercial Liability: Working knowledge of standard CGL policies and reinsurance for same.
Commutations: As in-house reinsurance counsel, experience with providing advice as to the scope and terms of commutations, as well as drafting the agreements. For prior agreements, analyzing and applying the terms of commutation agreement to subsequent claims.
Contract Wording: Extensive work on interpreting treaties and fac certs, and disputes involving the same.
Environmental/Pollution: Experience with pollution exclusions and exceptions, allocation issues pertaining pollution claims, and application of reinsurance to the same.
Excess/Surplus Lines: More than a decade of experience of legal work as outside and inside counsel involving an excess and special risks program.
Finite: Extensive work as outside and in-house counsel in the legacy space involving the use of LPTs, adverse development cover, quota shares, and familiarity with the contract wording and business purpose of these types of covers.
Insolvencies: On behalf of firm and in-house clients, have worked on several insolvencies, including proofs of claim, claims issues leading to NODs, disputed claim proceedings, and setoff.
Product Liability: Experience with disputed issues involving product claims, such as aggregates, batch clauses, and number of occurrences issues.
Third Party Administrator: Extensive work in the legacy space involving work with TPAs, disputes against TPAs and TPA contracts.
Toxic Tort: Direct and reinsurance legal work involving a variety of toxic torts such as talc, glyphosate, MTBE, silica, and lead, and the disputes issues such as trigger and allocation issues associated with toxic torts.
Workers' Compensation: Reinsurance treaty work involving cover for workers comp claims.
ARIAS Experience
Workshops, As Faculty: 2024 Spring Seminar, moderator for panel involving Insolvencies and Mass Tort Bankruptcies; 2023 Fall Conference - panelist. Breakout session on Arbitration Costs and Cost Saving Measures; 2019 Fall Conference - panelist - general session on Confidentiality ; 2018 Spring Conference - panelist - breakout session on Talc claims
Workshops, as Trainee: Yes
Arbitration Experience
Number of Arbitrations as Outside Counsel: 20-25
Arbitration Experience: As Corporate Representative: Corporate representative on numerous arbitrations at various stages, several of which progressed through a full hearing to an award.
Biography
Tim Curley is the Senior Reinsurance Counsel at Allianz Reinsurance America, where since 2017 he has provided legal advice on a variety of ceded and assumed reinsurance issues, including arbitrated and litigated disputes, and commutations. Prior to joining Allianz, Tim represented cedents and reinsurers as a counsel in the Insurance/Reinsurance Group at Crowell & Moring, and as an associate at Chadbourne & Parke. Tim's legal career has spanned over 29 years and has included periods outside of reinsurance in government service at the Commercial Litigation Branch of the U.S. Department of Justice, the Navy Office of General Counsel and the Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps.
Tim’s reinsurance and insurance work has spanned a variety of claim types, including:
• asbestos
• sexual abuse
• pollution
• toxic tort
• health hazard
• product liability
• general liability
• concussion
• COVID-19
• worker’s compensation.
In private practice and as in-house counsel, he has handled arbitrations involving a myriad of complex allocation and contract interpretation disputes. Based on this experience, Tim brings to the table as an arbitrator his expertise in a variety of areas, including:
• insurance and reinsurance contract interpretation
• follow the settlements
• custom and practice in the reinsurance industry
• policy aggregation and treaty aggregation issues / number of occurrences
• exhaustion issues
• commutations
• late notice
• access to records / audits
• setoff
• collateral issues – LOCs and trusts
• privilege and confidentiality issues
• discovery disputes
• insolvencies and liquidations – insurer and reinsurer
• loss portfolio transfers (LPT)
• insurance business transfers (IBT)
• third party administrators (TPAs)
• ECO and XPL
• utmost good faith
• rescission claims
• risk retention groups and mutual companies
Tim’s reinsurance and insurance work has spanned a variety of claim types, including:
• asbestos
• sexual abuse
• pollution
• toxic tort
• health hazard
• product liability
• general liability
• concussion
• COVID-19
• worker’s compensation.
In private practice and as in-house counsel, he has handled arbitrations involving a myriad of complex allocation and contract interpretation disputes. Based on this experience, Tim brings to the table as an arbitrator his expertise in a variety of areas, including:
• insurance and reinsurance contract interpretation
• follow the settlements
• custom and practice in the reinsurance industry
• policy aggregation and treaty aggregation issues / number of occurrences
• exhaustion issues
• commutations
• late notice
• access to records / audits
• setoff
• collateral issues – LOCs and trusts
• privilege and confidentiality issues
• discovery disputes
• insolvencies and liquidations – insurer and reinsurer
• loss portfolio transfers (LPT)
• insurance business transfers (IBT)
• third party administrators (TPAs)
• ECO and XPL
• utmost good faith
• rescission claims
• risk retention groups and mutual companies