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Jeanne represents U.S. and international clients in insurance and reinsurance litigations and arbitrations. She has represented and counseled in matters involving property and casualty and life and health reinsurance, coverage issues, insolvencies and regulatory issues, as well as a variety of other insurance and reinsurance matters.

• Jeanne has represented cedents and reinsurers in numerous litigations and arbitrations with respect to a variety of issues including allocation, number of occurrences and rescission.
  
  
• She has counseled cedents and reinsurers with respect to claims handling and coverage issues.
  
  
• In addition, Jeanne has negotiated and drafted settlement agreements and commutation agreements of behalf of clients.
  
  
• Jeanne has experience drafting reinsurance contracts and assisting clients in the review and analysis of reinsurance contracts.
  
  
• She has represented reinsurers in matters relating to two major Pennsylvania Liquidations and other insolvencies.
  
  
• Jeanne has represented a leading aviation insurance pool in litigations to secure increases in LOCs, necessitated by 9/11 and other large aviation losses.
  
  
• She has also represented reinsurers in multiple arbitrations involving surety bond claims.
  

Jeanne is a frequent speaker at industry functions and has authored numerous articles on insurance and reinsurance related issues. Her most recent speaking engagements and publications are as follows:

• "Developments in Reinsurance Case Law," speaker, Brokers & Reinsurance Markets Association 2008 Committee Rendezvous, Naples, Florida, March 30 - April 1, 2008.
  
  
• "Electronic Discovery in the U.S. - What Insurers and Reinsurers Need to Know," co-speaker, International Underwriting Association, London, September 2007.
  
  
• "Re Claims: Reinsurance Claims Management for Claims Professional," faculty, Reinsurance Association of America Reinsurance Claims Conference, Chicago, March 2007.
  
  
• "Re Claims: Reinsurance Claims Management for Claims Professionals," faculty, Reinsurance Association of America Reinsurance Claims Conference, New York, New York, September 28, 2006.
  
  
• "Operating Within the Scope of the Attorney Client Privilege," speaker, 2006 Reinsurance Underwriters Association (IRU) Claims Workshop, Southampton, Bermuda, May 1, 2006.
  
  
• "The Most Important Recent Developments in the Courts", co-speaker, Mealey's Fundamentals of Reinsurance Litigation and Arbitration, New York, New York, November 8, 2005.
  
  
• "Re Claims: Reinsurance Claims Management for Claims Professionals," faculty, Reinsurance Association of America Reinsurance Claims Conference, New York, New York, September 29, 2005.
  
  
• "Reinsurance Implications of Financial Institutions Claims," co-speaker, Report From the Front Lines: Litigation and Regulatory Developments Affecting Public Companies, Financial Institutions and Investment Funds, Bermuda, September 27, 2005.
  
  
• "Arbitration Practice in the Reinsurance Industry," panelist, New York City Bar Center for Continuing Legal Education's Evolving Issues in Reinsurance & Insolvency Conference, New York, New York, May 13, 2005.
  
  
• "Maximizing Reinsurance Recoveries in Run-off," panelist, American Conference Institute's 4th International Advanced Forum on Run-Off and Commutations Conference, New York, New York, April 1, 2005.
  
  
• "2004 Sees Significant Legal Developments Affecting the US Reinsurance Industry," co-author, Reinsurance Magazine, December 1, 2004.
  
  
• "Arbitration With Insolvent Companies," co-author, Declarations - published by Excess/Surplus Lines Claims Association, Winter 2004.
  
  
• "The Evolving Standard of Arbitrator Neutrality," co-author, ARIAS U.S. Quarterly, First Quarter 2005, Volume 12, Number 1 and Edwards & Angell Insurance & Reinsurance Update, Fall 2004.
  
  
• "Re Claims: Reinsurance Claims Management for Claims Professionals," faculty, Reinsurance Association of America Reinsurance Claims Conference, New York, New York, October 5-6, 2004.
  
  
• "Not for the Faint of Heart," co-author, Professional Liability Underwriting Society Journal, February 2004 and Reinsurance Magazine, August 2003.
  
  
• "U.S. Reinsurance Watch: Looking Back at the Significant U.S. Legal and Regulatory Developments in 2003," co-author, Reinsurance Magazine, January 1, 2004.
  
  
• "Is Rescission an Available Remedy to Reinsurers of Insolvent Ceding Companies," Insurance Day, March 19, 2003.
  
  
• "Arbitration Takes After Litigation," Reinsurance Magazine, February 2003.
  
  
• ARIAS U.S. Arbitrator Training Workshop, faculty, Boston, Massachusetts, Fall 2002.
  
  
• "Statutory Issues in Arbitration with Insolvent Companies," co-authored, International Association of Insurance Receivers, Spring 2002.
  
  

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Jeanne joined the firm in 1999, prior to which she was an associate with another law firm.