Scienter Is Focus Of Dismissal Arguments In Securities Suit Involving Reinsurance

( December 4, 2024, 3:04 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — Scienter is the key issue in dismissal arguments in a putative class action, with the named plaintiff telling a New York federal court that “improperly accounting for reinsurance premiums” led to material overstatements and investors were also misled on “internal controls,” and the defendants challenging “the misguided assumption that the Company’s identification of an accounting error and weakness in internal controls necessarily equates to securities fraud.”...