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Court refuses to imply follow the fortunes doctrine into reinsurance agreements

December 21, 2006 by Carlton Fields

In a matter involving the reinsurance of asbestos-related risks, a District Court has followed what it considered to be both the majority rule, and the better reasoned path, declining to imply the follow the fortunes doctrine into reinsurance agreements, where the facultative reinsurance agreements did not contain such a provision. The Court then denied summary judgment to the reinsured, finding that there were disputed issues of material fact as to whether certain excess insurance had been exhausted, a requirement for the applicability of the reinsurance, and whether an exclusion applied. The American Ins. Co. v. American Re-Ins. Co., Case No. 05-01218 (USDC N.D. Cal. Nov. 27, 2006). Shortly after this opinion was entered, the parties notified the Court that they had reached a settlement of their disputes.

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