Communications between an insurance carrier and its reinsurers may or may not be protected by privilege and may or may not be further protected by the common interest doctrine. The analysis is fact-specific, but important where reinsurance communications are sought in litigation. In a recent case, a New York federal court upheld an insurer’s withholding of reinsurance communications based on both work-product privilege and the common interest doctrine.

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