Affirmative Defenses Invoked Against Reinsurer’s Bid For Declaratory Judgment

Mealey's (September 14, 2021, 10:05 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — Days after removing a reinsurer’s suit seeking a declaratory judgment over defense and indemnity costs in an underlying personal injury lawsuit to a federal court in New York, an insurer on Sept. 10 filed an answer asserting 26 affirmative defenses, including that the issues are not yet ripe and that the insure has at all relevant times “articulated valid bases for its coverage position.”...