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  1. May 08, 2025

    2nd Circ. Revives Arbitration In Hurricane Damage Suit

    The Second Circuit on Thursday revived a bid by surplus insurers seeking to arbitrate claims over hurricane-related property damage in Louisiana, in a ruling that overturns its own precedent on the interpretation of a treaty governing international arbitration.

  2. September 18, 2024

    Insurers Demand Arbitration Of La. Storm Damage At 2nd Circ.

    A Second Circuit panel puzzled over whether to uphold a New York federal court's ruling denying surplus insurers arbitration in a Louisiana hurricane damage case, during oral arguments over whether the court should follow Bayou State law prohibiting arbitration or reverse the lower court's decision.

  3. April 19, 2024

    Insurers Push To Arbitrate Hurricane Damage Case

    An arbitrator should decide whether a Louisiana property owner's hurricane damage claims must be arbitrated, a group of surplus lines insurers argued in urging the Second Circuit to reject a New York district court's reliance on the circuit's precedent to find the arbitration clause at issue unenforceable.

  4. January 05, 2024

    Industry Org. Backs Lloyd's, Other Insurers In Arbitration Row

    The Wholesale and Specialty Insurance Association has asked the Second Circuit to let it support a group of surplus lines insurers who claim a New York federal judge erred by not compelling into arbitration a Louisiana property owner who sued the insurers over unpaid claims stemming from Hurricane Ida.