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Federal judges in Brooklyn are making it easier to pursue fraud claims against no-fault medical providers

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 8 2013

The Eastern District of New York, which includes the New York City Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, has been home to some of the most colorful

Eighth Circuit: broad service of suit provision in insurance policy endorsement precludes arbitration

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 7 2013

In a prior post, we reported the district court's denial of the insurer's motion to compel arbitration in Union Electric Co. v. Aegis Energy

Roundup of federal decisions on motions to compel arbitration

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 7 2012

Authenment, III v. Ingram Barge Co., Case No. 10-2107 (USDC E.D. La. July 13, 2012) (granting West of England Shipowner’s Mutual’s motion to stay pending arbitration in a case initially brought against West of England’s insured, notwithstanding that plaintiff was non-signatory to arbitration agreement; holding that Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards supersedes Louisiana’s statute prohibiting arbitration agreements in insurance contracts

Insurer and reinsurer stipulate to dismissal of lawsuit, agreeing to arbitrate reinsurance claim dispute

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 17 2011

TIG Insurance Company ("TIG") sued Arrowood Indemnity Company ("Arrowood") in federal court for breach of a reinsurance agreement

Coverage for “allocated loss expense” includes attorneys’ fees

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 20 2012

Federal Insurance Company and Zurich American Insurance Company were parties to a co-surety agreement providing excess professional liability coverage to the Hartford Financial Services Group

Motion to dismiss claim for breach of confidentiality agreement in reinsurance arbitration denied

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 18 2012

INA Reinsurance recently moved to dismiss or to stay an action initiated by Utica Mutual Insurance arising out of the alleged breach of three confidentiality agreements, including one entered as an order in the parties’ pending reinsurance arbitration

Court compels arbitration in reinsurance dispute

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 30 2013

New Jersey Physicians United Reciprocal Exchange ("NJ Pure") filed a complaint claiming that its reinsurer breached a 2007 reinsurance contract under

Participation in New York arbitration not an implicit waiver of sovereign immunity under the FSIA

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • Argentina, USA
  • -
  • February 12 2013

A pro se attorney sued his former clients, Argentina's economic ministry and a reinsurance company owned by the Argentine government, for malicious

Tenth Circuit holds post-judgment interest rate in “broad” arbitration provision trumps statutory rate

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 17 2010

On November 17, 2008, we reported on a Colorado district court's decision in a reinsurance dispute to alter the post-judgment interest rate provided in the arbitration panel's final award and replace it with a statutory rate

Declaratory relief action rejected as a means to challenge interlocutory arbitration orders for lack of “ripeness”

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 25 2013

In an arbitration related to an uninsured motorist insurance claim, the insured twice challenged the arbitrators' discovery rulings by filing