You can read our Arbitration Fairness Act guest-blog post (available here) on Victoria Van Buren’s excellent ADR blog, Disputing. Look for Victoria’s guest-blog post on manifest disregard of the law next week in the Loree Reinsurance and Arbitration Law Forum.
Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Arbitration Fairness Day: Read Our Guest-Blog Post in Disputing!
April 27th, 2009 General, Legislative Developments No Comments »Coming Soon: Guest Blogging, Some Interesting Posts, and Arbitration Fairness Day
April 26th, 2009 General, Legislative Developments, Life Reinsurance, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit No Comments »From time-to-time the Loree Reinsurance and Arbitration Law Forum will be featuring guest bloggers. We are honored that Victoria Van Buren of Disputing has accepted our invitation to guest blog, and expect within the next week or so to feature her post concerning Fifth Circuit standards of review under Section 10(a)(4) of the Federal Arbitration Act in the wake of Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. v. Bacon, ___ F.3d ___ (5th Cir. 2009), in which the Court held that manifest disregard of the law is no longer an independent ground for vacatur under the Federal Arbitration Act. We expect that Victoria will be submitting other guest blog posts in the future, and look forward to featuring them. We shall also be inviting others to guest blog here at the Forum. Continue Reading »
Introducing “Nuts & Bolts” Posts
March 29th, 2009 General, Nuts & Bolts 2 Comments »From time to time we shall feature “Nuts & Bolts” posts, which are designed to provide basic information on reinsurance- or arbitration-related topics. These posts are intended to be a resource for in-house and outside counsel, arbitrators, law students, and other persons who are interested in reinsurance or arbitration law (or both). Our coverage is not intended to be comprehensive, but merely to provide some hopefully helpful background and a springboard for further research. Continue Reading »
What is the Difference Between “Commercial” and “Industry” Arbitration?
March 24th, 2009 General No Comments »If you bothered to read even this much of the first sentence of this post, you probably have a pretty good idea of what commercial arbitration is, and what it encompasses. To us, and, we suspect most others, “commercial arbitration” is simply arbitration arising out of or relating to a commercial transaction. It includes arbitrations involving only sophisticated parties as well as disputes involving one or more “unsophisticated” parties, such as consumer arbitration. It is not generally understood to include labor arbitration arising out of collective bargaining agreements (which is not governed by the Federal Arbitration Act, although FAA precedents are frequently cited in Labor Management Relations Act Section 301 cases and vice-versa). And it is debatable whether arbitration arising out of an employment contract dispute (which may or may not be governed by the FAA) is truly a species of commercial arbitration, yet we consider it one. Continue Reading »
Welcome to the Loree Reinsurance and Arbitration Law Forum!
March 24th, 2009 General No Comments »Welcome to our blog! We want it to be a forum for the analysis and open discussion of reinsurance law and practice and commercial and industry arbitration. We will be covering recent developments in or affecting both of these subjects, as well as exploring topics pertinent to each. Continue Reading »
