Insurance In And From Jersey

I am a new arrival to Jersey, having returned to private legal practice, with Viberts law firm in Jersey, following in-house senior legal counsel positions in Dublin and Zurich. These were preceded by my being called to the English Bar and later re-qualifying and working as an English solicitor and Partner, in the City of London, where I belonged to Barlow, Lyde & Gilbert, one of the premier insurance and in particular reinsurance law firms, consistently first-ranked for some 20 years. Personal life changes have brought me to Jersey, as I shall be getting married to a Jersey girl in September of this year.

Beyond the latter development and the obvious delights of a beautiful island and sunny climate lying just off the coast of mainland France, what does Jersey have to offer to a specialist insurance and reinsurance lawyer such as myself and more importantly to the international insurance and reinsurance industry? Plainly, Guernsey, lying a little to the north of