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Lydia B. Kam Lyew
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Personal Information
  • Address:
    1048 ALEXANDRIA DRIVE
    SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA 92107-4115 United States
  • Phone:
    203--918-3195
  • Cell:
    203-918-3195
  • Email:
    lkamlyew@gmail.com
Credentials
  • Attorney:
    No
  • Education:
    Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude, Barat College, Kappa Gamma Pi (National Leadership & Scholastic Honor Society);
    Master in Business Administration, Magna Cum Laude, Louisiana Tech University, Phi Kappa Phi (National Honor Society); Beta Gamma Sigma (National Scholastic Honor Society of Business Administration).
  • Degrees:
    Bachelor of Arts
    Master in Business Administration
  • Designations:
    Named One of the 100 Leading Women in the Insurance Industry: Business Insurance – October 2, 2000.
  • Languages:
    Bilingual: English/Spanish
  • Other Information:
    Experienced and respected for technical expertise (underwriting and claims), negotiations, communications and coordination skills in dealing with a wide spectrum of business partners in reinsurance transactions: board members, clients, executives, employees, investment community, rating agencies as well as technical professionals (attorneys, accountants, actuaries, claims, underwriters, consultants.)
Work Experience
  • Insurance Company: 2 years.
    Underwriting Department: 2 years. Senior Underwriter
  • Reinsurance Company: 23 years.
    Underwriting Department: 17 years. Executive Vice President; Senior Vice President; Assistant Vice President
    Executive Officer (CEO, COO, CFO, Chief Actuary): 6 years. President & Chief Operating Officer; Executive President & Chief Operating Officer
  • Insurance-related Firms: 19 years.
    Consultant: 19 years. Principal , Insurance/Reinsurance Consulting, Expert Witness & Arbitration Practice
Breakdown of Experience
  • Directors &, Officers
    5%
  • Healthcare
    5%
  • MGA/MGU
    5%
  • Contract Wording
    5%
  • Environmental/Pollution
    5%
  • Excess/Surplus Lines
    5%
  • Professional Liability/Errors &, Omissions
    5%
  • Commercial Liability
    5%
  • Catastrophes (Casualty)
    5%
  • Employment Practices Liability
    5%
  • Bad Faith/ECO
    5%
  • Product Liability
    5%
  • Automobile Liability/Property
    5%
  • Asbestos
    5%
  • Architects &, Engineers
    5%
  • Alternative/Self-Insurance/Risk Management
    5%
  • Captives/Risk Retention Groups
    4%
  • Energy
    2%
  • Workers' Compensation
    2%
  • Toxic Tort
    2%
  • Third Party Administrator
    1%
  • Commutations
    1%
  • Commercial Property
    1%
  • Financial Guarantee
    1%
  • Finite
    1%
  • Catastrophes (Property)
    1%
  • Intellectual Property
    1%
  • Libel/Slander/Media Liability
    1%
  • Political Risk
    1%
  • Personal Lines
    1%
By Market
  • U.S. Market:
    80%
  • U.K. Market:
    10%
  • Bermuda/Off-shore Market:
    2%
  • European Market:
    2%
  • Global Market:
    6%

Insurance vs. Reinsurance: 20/80%
Treaty vs. Facultative Reinsurance: 75/25%

ARIAS Experience

Workshops, as Trainee: 2; September 2002, March 2009

Ethics Training, as Trainee: 1; March 2010

ARIAS Conference Faculty: 4; Spring 2003, Fall 2008, Spring 2012, Spring 2017

Arbitration Experience

Number of Arbitrations

As an Arbitrator: 2

Arbitrator Experience
Number of Arbitrations
1
Appointed as an arbitrator.
1
Acted as an arbitrator through the organizational meeting or the arbitration has only reached this stage.
Biography

Lydia B. Kam Lyew is the Principal of REnamics LLC, a consulting firm focused on the reinsurance/insurance industry. Her consulting practice scope includes: arbitration; mediation; expert witness; litigation management support; due diligence reviews/audits: underwriting, claims, forensic research/data recovery & analysis; management/marketing strategies & tactics; product development; commutations; runoff; and research projects. Ms. Kam Lyew also provides extensive market intelligence and technical expertise on the re/insurance industry segment to the investment banking community.

Ms. Kam Lyew is a Certified Arbitrator, Qualified Mediator and member of AIDA U.S. Reinsurance and Insurance Arbitration Society (ARIAS-U. S.). She is listed in Arbitrator Directories of ARIAS, Reinsurance Association of America (RAA) and Association of Insurance & Reinsurance Run-Off Companies (AIRROC).

Ms. Kam Lyew serves as Expert Witness in re/insurance matters and is listed in Juris Pro and SEAK. In her capacity as arbitrator or expert witness, Ms. Kam Lyew has reviewed claims and coverage disputes involving insureds; insurers; reinsurers; retrocessionaires; managing general agents as well as financial institutions. Issues have included facultative certificates as well as treaty contracts; primary policies as well as umbrella/excess; asbestos; pollution; aggregation/accumulation of claims; allocation; declaratory judgments; timely claims notice; treatment of defense expense; occurrence; bad faith as well as a myriad of other complex matters. Ms. Kam Lyew has experience and technical expertise in many areas, including specialty casualty coverages such as, but not limited to, Product Liability; all forms of Professional Liability including Medical Malpractice; Directors’ and Officers’ liability; Errors & Omissions; Employment Practices Liability; Media/Libel and Slander; Financial Institutions E & O; Political Risk; ERISA/Pension Trust Liability; Workers’ Compensation, ART