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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

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

Court compels production of underwriting manuals; finds reinsurance documents generally irrelevant

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

A dispute arose between the city of Warren, Michigan and several insurance companies regarding their duties to defend and indemnify with respect to a state court class action suit against the city

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

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

Eighth Circuit affirms arbitration decision against Illinois farmers insurance

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 29 2011

Recently, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals filed its opinion ruling on an appeal from the District Court’s orders dismissing Farmers’s counterclaim that Alpine Glass violated Minnesota’s anti-incentive statute, granting summary judgment in favor of Alpine on a breach of contract issue, and denying Farmers’s motion to vacate an arbitration award

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

Reinsurance dispute against UK reinsurers dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 9 2012

An action for breach of contract and declaratory relief arising from “fronting” insurance arrangements and reinsurance contracts (some dating to the late 1960s) between Employers’ Liability Assurance Corp. (“ELAC,” a predecessor of OneBeacon) and a series of “Moving Party” reinsurers has fallen by the wayside

District court refuses to disqualify arbitrators in reinsurance dispute

  • Jorden Burt LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 31 2011

IRB-Brasil and National Indemnity Company recently filed cross petitions concerning the ongoing arbitration between the parties