Overview

Dewey & LeBoeuf’s reinsurance newsletter providing recent case summaries, recent English case summaries and recent speeches and publications.

Content includes:

- Fifth Circuit, en banc, Holds That Louisiana Anti-Arbitration Law Through the McCarran-Ferguson Act Does Not Reverse Preempt New York Convention
- Third Circuit Confirms Decision to Compel Arbitration and to Uphold Arbitration Award Based on Incorporation by Reference of Arbitration Clause
- Second Circuit Remands Question of Arbitrability and Waiver After $34.3 Million Jury Verdict Against Cedent
- Seventh Circuit Denies Petition for Rehearing After Upholding Arbitration Award Following Replacement of Arbitrator
- New York Federal Court Grants Motion to Compel Arbitration With Competing Agreements and Clauses
- Wisconsin Federal Court Appoints Umpire and Rejects Disqualification Based on ARIAS-U.S. Certification
- Illinois Federal Court Confirms Arbitration Award Including Attorneys’ Fees
- Pennsylvania Federal Court Vacates “Irrational” Arbitration Award
- New York State Appeals Court Denies Motion to Enjoin Arbitration
- Third Circuit Vacates Summary Judgment Against Reinsurer That Ignored Liability Cap in Contract Ambiguity Case
- New York Federal Court Denies Request to Amend Complaint for Statutory Bad Faith Claim Against Reinsurer
- Illinois Federal Court Grants Purported Reinsurer’s Motion to Dismiss Claim
- Illinois Federal Court Dismisses Claim Brought By Pool Administrator Acting Solely as Attorney-in-Fact
- Texas Federal Court Refuses to Enjoin State Court Claims Arising Under Previously Litigated Reinsurance Treaties
- New York Intermediate Appellate Court Upholds Principal/Agent Relationship, But Reverses Summary Judgment Dismissing the Cedent’s Counterclaim of Reformation
- Massachusetts Court Grants Summary Judgment to Policyholder on Redomestication Claim
- Unraveling the LMX Spiral
- Did English Law Apply to a Reinsurance Contract?