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The court further found that the bank may have some culpability, which further supports its production of the documents.

The Sixth Circuit recently held that a lower court erred by refusing to vacate an arbitration panel's interim and final awards due to ex parte communications...

Bordelon Marine, LLC sued Bibby Subsea ROV, LLC for damages and for writ of attachment arising out of a disagreement over the chartering of an offshore vessel.

Relying on D.R. Horton Inc. v. NLRB and Murphy Oil, USA v. NRLB, the Fifth Circuit found the NLRB's decision that Citibank violated the National Labor Relations Act by requiring employees to sign an arbitration agreement containing collective/class action waiver was erroneous and reversed the Board's decision.

The receiver for Gramercy Insurance Company sought to avoid arbitration of a reinsurance dispute with Contractor's Bonding, Ltd., by arguing the FAA was reverse preempted under the McCarron-Ferguson Act.

In a closely followed development, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has adopted rules governing when a life reinsurance contract combining both yearly renewable term...

Insurance and Reinsurance partner Daniel A. Rabinowitz and associate Alexander Traum's article, "NAIC Moves Ahead on Capital Requirements, Redundant Life Reserves, and More," appeared in the Feb. 16, 2016 issue of FC&S Legal.

On July 31, 2018, President Trump signed the National Flood Insurance Program Extension Act of 2018.

On April 11, 2018 Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) signed Legislative Bill 815 into law, joining the surge of states amending their insurance laws regarding when ceding insurers may claim credit for reinsurance.

Utica argued that the undisputed facts established a reasonable basis for the settlement, while FFIC argued that they established Utica's bad faith.

Relying on Federal Court precedent, a Pennsylvania intermediate appellate court resolved whether the plain language of Section 916 of the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act prohibits...

On Monday, January 12, President Barack Obama signed into law a reauthorization of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, first enacted in 2002 following the 9/11 terrorist attacks but which had expired on December 31, 2014.

The court refused to "look behind" and nullify that agreement based on defendant's allegations, particularly where there were no allegations of fraud or mistake in the issuance of the note.

Daniel Tranen was published in the Oct – Nov 2016 issue of CHART Exchange on the subject of advice provided by coverage lawyers in the coverage determination process.

In order to be arbitrable, a dispute must fall within the scope of the parties' operative arbitration agreement.

A federal district court in California recently dismissed a lawsuit brought by a cedent against its reinsurer for lack of a personal jurisdiction...

In a Special Focus article posted on May 2, 2016, we addressed the uncertain future of the multi-state allocation of non-admitted premium tax revenue.