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In State Court It’s Just as Tough to Vacate an Arbitration Award
Most commercial arbitrations fall under the Federal Arbitration Act. But some arbitrations are intra-state so they come within the various state arbitration laws. In New York, for example, Article...
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Reinsurance and the Death Master File
In a traditional life insurance and reinsurance relationship, a life insurance company issues a policy to a policyholder and reinsures the policy (usually via a block of business consisting of the...
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Another Federal Court Denies Application to Seal Arbitration Award
Nearly every US reinsurance arbitration includes a Confidentiality Agreement. The vast majority of those confidentiality agreements are based on the ARIAS•U.S. Confidentiality Agreement and...
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December 2019 Reinsurance Newsletter
In our December 2019 Reinsurance Newsletter we discuss non-signatories being bound by arbitration clauses, a case involving who decides arbitrability questions, a functus officio case, a remand to an...
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Binding Arbitration Award In Coverage Dispute Ends Later Coverage Litigation
Many insurance policies have binding arbitration clauses along with other provisions that address whether a lawsuit may be brought against the insurance company. What happens when the arbitration...
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The Squire Patton Boggs Reinsurance Newsletter has been published. The March 2020 Newsletter includes a discussion of a Third Circuit consolidation issue, reinsurance cases resulting from the recent...
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Arbitrators to Decide If Reinsurance Rebilling After Final Arbitration Award...
What happens when, after a reinsurance arbitration over how the ceding company billed the reinsurer is resolved in the reinsurer’s favor with a final award confirmed by the court, the ceding company...
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Final Award Confirmed Over Interim Final Award in Reinsurance Dispute
Reinsurance arbitration panels, when asked, sometimes issue interim awards that address merits issues. Often this happens when the parties need clarity on how to calculate a reinsurance billing. The...
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Final Arbitration Award Including Attorney Fees Confirmed
Awards of attorney fees are few and far between in reinsurance arbitrations, but they happen. When they happen, the losing side sometimes seeks to vacate the award based on the arbitrators exceeding...
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June 2020 Reinsurance Newsletter
The Squire Patton Boggs June 2020 Reinsurance Newsletter is now available for your reading pleasure. You can read the Newsletter on the Squire Patton Boggs website at this link. In this issue we...
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