R&Q Says $1.47 Million California Federal Reinsurance Action Belongs in Illinois

SAN FRANCISCO — R&Q Reinsurance Co. says a $1.47 million reinsurance action filed by The American Insurance Co. in California federal court belongs in Illinois because R&Q is not “at home” in California and lacks the requisite “minimum contacts” with that state.

In a Nov. 15 motion to dismiss filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, R&Q asserts that the action should be dismissed for want of jurisdiction under Rule 12(b)(2).

TAIC insured GM under several excess liability policies in effect from October 1976 through September 1985. Those policies were reinsured under 11 facultative contracts …