Policy Terms, Insurance Industry, Federal Arbitration Act

Insurance Update - April 2024

Rivkin Radler LLP on 4/12/2024

Dominance was the theme of this year’s NCAA basketball tournament, with the UConn men’s team winning back-to-back championships and the South Carolina women’s team reclaiming the title with a perfect record. But let’s not...more

Ninth Circuit Reaffirms That Washington State’s Prohibition Of Arbitration Clauses In Insurance Contracts Reverse-Preempts FAA

Carlton Fields on 3/6/2018

This case concerned a coverage dispute between Technical Security Integration Inc. and its insurer, Philadelphia Indemnity. The District Court for the District of Oregon denied Philadelphia Indemnity’s motion to compel...more

Ninth Circuit Finds Arbitration Clause Showed Clear And Unmistakable Intent To Resolve Arbitrability Questions By Arbitration

Carlton Fields on 2/5/2018

Finding Montana law was inapplicable to the subject insurance policy under both federal maritime choice-of-law principles and the policy language, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals determined that an arbitration clause was...more

NEBRASKA: A Good Home for Berkshire Hathaway, but not for Reinsurance Agreements

Locke Lord LLP on 12/20/2017

A Cornhusker by birth, I’ve always had a special affinity for Nebraska, and particularly Omaha, where I was raised. My only regret is that I was neither old nor rich enough to participate in Mr.Buffet’s original partnership....more

Court Finds California Insurance Code Section 11658.5 Reverse-Preempts Section 4 Of The FAA

Carlton Fields on 7/17/2017

National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA provided Seneca Family of Agencies with workers’ compensation and employers’ liability insurance for Seneca’s operations in California from 2004 to 2013. The parties...more

Third Circuit Reverses Order Denying Arbitration, Ruling That State Law Prohibiting Arbitration Of Insurance Matters Challenged...

Carlton Fields on 11/29/2016

Applied Underwriters Captive Risk Assurance Company appealed from the denial of its motion to compel arbitration in a dispute related to a reinsurance participation contract with South Jersey Sanitation Company. The trial...more