HICKS, J. The appellant, Century Indemnity Company (CIC), appeals an order of the Superior Court (Conboy, J.) sustaining a referee’s ruling denying CIC’s asserted setoff of reinsurance claims in the liquidation of The Home Insurance Company (Home). The respondent is Roger A. Sevigny, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of New Hampshire, solely as Liquidator of The Home Insurance Company (the liquidator). We reverse and remand.