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Jane Byrne joined Quinn Emanuel in 2007, bringing nearly 20 years of reinsurance and insurance industry experience to the firm.  Ms. Byrne managed reinsurance litigation for six years as an Associate General Counsel for American International Group, Inc., where she oversaw some of the largest and most complex reinsurance matters in the United States, Bermuda and the United Kingdom.  Her practice continues to be devoted almost exclusively to reinsurance and insurance arbitration and litigation.  Ms. Byrne has litigated and provided counseling regarding a wide array of issues involving reinsurance, including litigation surrounding the settlement of a $150 million claim for rescission, litigation and arbitration resolving challenges to the reinsurance allocation of a settlement that was, at the time, the largest settlement ever in a pollution case, litigation and the eventual receivership of a reinsurance broker accused of improperly converting fiduciary funds, and countless reinsurance disputes involving late notice, follow the fortunes, cut through clauses, underwriting, captives, brokers, managing general agents, and finite reinsurance.

Ms. Byrne currently represents a group of reinsurers in litigation on the reinsurance coverage for a settlement of $1 billion in asbestos settlements.  She also represents certain member companies of American International Group Inc. in a series of disputes involving over $2 billion of reinsurance recoveries and in litigation by the National Workers Compensation Reinsurance Pool for alleged underreporting of residual market business.