United States Third Circuit

District court's orders granting defendant-Lloyd's motion to compel arbitration of a disputed claim based on a set of reinsurance-of-reinsurance agreements and denying plaintiff-Century's motion to vacate an arbitration panel's subsequent award in favor of Lloyd's is affirmed where: 1) district court properly compelled arbitration of the dispute arising from the retrocessional agreements over Lloyd's failure to pay declaratory judgment expenses that Century had paid to its reinsured under reinsurance treaties; and 2) the district court properly denied Century's motion to vacate the arbitration award under 9. U.S.C. section 10(a)(3) as the arbitrators' decision to exclude evidence plaintiff proffered based on the evidence's irrelevance was well within their authority in conducting the arbitration.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/02/2009
• Decided 10/15/2009
• Published 10/15/2009

Judges

• Before McKEE, HARDIMAN and GREENBERG, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Carter G. Phillips (argued), William M. Sneed, Melanie Jo Triebel, Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago, IL, Lawrence Nathanson, Siegal & Park, Mount Laurel, NJ, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark J. Hill, Mark J. Hill & Associates, Philadelphia, PA, John M. Wulfers, Hugh S. Balsam, Susan P. Jordan (argued), Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP, Chicago, IL, for Appellee.