Insurance Arbitrators May Have Been Biased: Judge

By Nick Brown

Law360, New York (February 25, 2010, 7:21 PM ET) -- A federal judge has vacated an arbitration panel’s ruling in favor of St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co. in a liability dispute over a stop-loss agreement with Scandinavian Reinsurance Co. Ltd., saying the arbitrators’ failure to disclose significant relationships may have made them partial to St. Paul.

District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered the matter back to a fresh arbitration panel on Tuesday, saying arbitrators Peter Gentile and Paul Dassenko should have told...
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