Key Current Issues and Best Practice for Managing Reinsurance Claims Training Course

Phillippa Rowe, senior partner of independent reinsurance consultants Phillippa Ross & Co., has over 30 years experience of insurance and reinsurance claims in Lloyd’s and the London market and internationally. She began her reinsurance career with 15 years with the Kiln group at Lloyd’s. She currently acts as arbitrator, mediator, expert witness and technical consultant in a wide range of claims, wordings and market practice matters and writes, lectures and provides training courses on similar subjects.

Duncan Strachan is a Partner at DAC Beachcroft LLP. He specialises in complex and international (re)insurance matters across multiple lines of business.  His current caseload advising on major energy losses in Ecuador, Peru and Colombia; monitoring US securities class action suits against non-US entities; and advising on exposure to climate change litigation.  Duncan’s focus is on international disputes and policy coverage analysis, with particular expertise in Latin America and the Caribbean, due to his familiarity with the legal and political landscape across the region. Duncan is also fluent in Spanish and regularly presents to insurers and reinsurers across the world.

Richard Cook is Managing Director of PICC Solutions. He was previously Head of Technical Adjusting at Charles Taylor Insurance Services and Head of Reinsurance at Xchanging Claims Services. He has over 37 years insurance claims experience in the Lloyd’s and London Insurance Company Market; joining Xchanging from a specialist Reinsurance Lloyd’s Managing Agency, where he was the Group Claims Manager. He has served on numerous major London Market claims committees and has appeared as a Fact Witness in coverage litigation before various United States Federal and State Courts. He has acted as an Expert Witness on London Market Claims Practice in the United States Federal Court in New York and in the High Court in London.

Russell Streeter is a Chartered Certified Accountant with over 20 years’ experience in insurance and reinsurance businesses in Europe, the Caribbean and Asia. He joined Quest Group as Associate Director in 2020, with a focus on financial reporting, modelling and due diligence. Quest is an international legacy specialist focused on acquiring discontinued insurance business and managing (re)insurance portfolios in run-off, with over half a billion dollars of claims under management.

James Bolton is a Chartered Accountant and qualified Insolvency Practitioner with over 30 years’ experience in insurance and reinsurance businesses, focusing on run-off.  He joined Quest Group as Director in 2013 and is principally involved in the management and co-ordination of acquisitions into the group by utilising portfolio transfer mechanisms or outright purchases.