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District court denies Chartis’ motion to compel arbitration pending court hearing as to whether arbitration is mandatory

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 2 2011

On April 5, the US District Court for the District of Colorado granted in part and denied in part defendant American International Special Lines' (now known as Chartis Specialty Insurance Company) Motion to Compel Arbitration, Stay Proceeding, and to Dismiss

Motion to set aside discovery order on loss reserves denied

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 5 2012

In the latest development in the ongoing litigation between Granite State Insurance Company and Clearwater Insurance Company, Granite unsuccessfully moved to set aside a magistrate judge’s discovery order

Annuity class action update

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 4 2012

The vigorous annuity class action arena recently spawned two federal court decisions favorable to defendant insurers

Travelers Casualty settles claims against two reinsurers

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 8 2012

Travelers Casualty agreed to settle its claims against two of a series of reinsurer defendants Factory Mutual and Arkwright Insurance

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

Third Circuit vacates several Sherman Act and RICO claims in insurance brokerage MDL

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 26 2010

We have reported several times on the ongoing developments in the Insurance Brokerage Antitrust Litigation MDL proceeding

Mccarran-Ferguson Act “reverse-preempts” federal jurisdiction in insurance rehabilitation case

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 24 2011

A Wisconsin federal district court has held that it may not interfere with an insurance rehabilitation case proceeding in state court

Fifth Circuit confirms international arbitration award from Netherlands

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • Netherlands, USA
  • -
  • June 24 2009

On June 9, 2009, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed an arbitration award against Saipem America, which arose out of an international commercial insurance dispute

Reinsurance does not fall within Florida’s collateral source rule

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 4 2011

Cross-motions for summary judgment were denied in Nova Casualty's federal legal malpractice action against Robert Santa Lucia, which involved the question of whether reinsurance falls within the collateral source rule

Third Circuit affirms vacatur of reinsurance claim arbitration award

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 22 2010

Platinum Underwriters appealed to the Third Circuit the vacatur of an arbitration award in Platinum's dispute against PMA Capital over a "deficit carry forward" provision in a reinsurance agreement