Defendant Litong Capital LLC appealed from an order of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. The district court denied Litong’s motion to compel arbitration of claims asserted by GP3 II LLC, having...more
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded a decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota denying defendant SUNZ Insurance Co.’s motion to compel arbitration of crossclaims asserted by...more
QAD Inc. petitioned the Delaware federal court to confirm an arbitration award it obtained against Block & Company Inc. Block cross-moved to vacate the award. The arbitrator awarded QAD more than $740,000 in connection with a...more
Linda Anderson sued Sarah Boyle alleging that Boyle breached her duties as trustee of an irrevocable trust to which Anderson and Boyle were beneficiaries. Boyle moved to compel arbitration, citing an arbitration clause in the...more
Stephanie Sotero Hernandez was killed in a car accident after leaving work at Baby Dolls Topless Saloons Inc. Hernandez’s estate filed a wrongful death suit against the club alleging it continued serving alcohol to...more
Defendants appealed a California federal district court order denying their motion to compel arbitration of the plaintiff’s claims for trade secret misappropriation, common law misappropriation, and unfair competition. The...more
Plaintiffs, the Republic of Kazakhstan and Outrider Management LLC, filed suit in New York state court claiming the defendants conspired to obtain a fraudulent international arbitral award against them of nearly $500 million....more
The Supreme Court of Maine has affirmed an order denying Uber’s motion to compel arbitration of claims that it and its subsidiary violated the Maine Human Rights Act. The action was filed after an Uber driver refused to drive...more
Plaintiff, Principal Securities Inc., filed suit in Iowa federal court seeking to enjoin a FINRA arbitration proceeding commenced by the defendants. Despite there being no arbitration agreement between the parties, the...more
Plaintiffs, Certain London Market Company Reinsurers (LMRs), filed suit against Lamorak Insurance Co. seeking a declaratory judgment that they were not obligated to pay reinsurance billings ceded by Lamorak. The disputed...more
Defendant SemGroup Corp. and intervenor-defendant Cypress Environmental Management-TIR appealed an Oklahoma district court order denying their motions to compel arbitration. The plaintiff, Robert Ferrell, was a Cypress...more
In November 2021, the Texas Department of Insurance adopted new administrative reinsurance regulations relating to reciprocal reinsurers. The rules took effect on January 1, 2022....more
Petitioner Andes Petroleum Ecuador Ltd. moved to confirm a $500 million arbitration award arising from a contract dispute involving hydrocarbon development in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The respondent, Occidental Exploration and...more
Plaintiffs Darrell Reeves and James King worked at Enterprise Products Partners through separate third-party staffing companies. Each plaintiff had a separate employment contract with his respective staffing company, which...more
Invoking the legal equivalent of “you snooze, you lose,” the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals found a farmer slept on its right to argue on appeal that an exclusion in its insurance policy was ambiguous. The decision, Arbre...more
Vinod Kumar Dahiya was injured in late 1999 while on a ship en route to Louisiana. At the time, he was employed by Neptune Shipmanagement Services and assigned to a vessel with interests held by the remaining plaintiffs. An...more
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a California district court order granting the plaintiff-union’s motion to confirm an arbitration award against the defendant. On appeal, the defendant claimed the district court...more
The plaintiff, ITT Engineered Valves LLC, sought to vacate an arbitration award finding it had improperly terminated its employee, Douglas Wood, and ordering that Wood be reinstated. While recognizing the general presumption...more
The Superior Court of Delaware rebuffed efforts by a policyholder to recover defense costs and interest it incurred in connection with an underlying appraisal proceeding, agreeing with the defendant-insurers that the...more
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a Michigan district court order confirming an arbitration award for Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Company of Iowa. The award ordered Edgar Miller to return the extra payments he...more
Brett-Andrew Nelson filed a petition to confirm an arbitration award issued by the Sitcomm Arbitration Association. The award purported to award Nelson $500,000 from each of the four defendants based on their breach of an...more
Third-party defendants AlixPartners LLP and Simon Freakley (collectively, “AlixPartners”) appealed from a July 2020 order of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, which granted an application for...more
Marcia Laude filed suit alleging that her late husband was not adequately cared for while residing in a nursing home operated by the defendants. In 2019, a Wisconsin district court granted the defendants’ motion to compel...more
The plaintiff filed suit for alleged civil rights violations arising from his former employment with the defendant. The defendant moved to dismiss and compel arbitration, citing an arbitration clause in the plaintiff’s...more
Petitioners Credit Suisse AG and Lara Warner sought to permanently stay an arbitration commenced by respondent Colleen Graham, who cross-moved to compel the arbitration. The petitioners claimed the proceeding was an...more