United States Ninth Circuit

In a motion to vacate an arbitral award in a reinsurance dispute, the denial of the motion is affirmed where, although the process employed by the arbitration panel, which included an ex parte meeting with panel retained workers' compensation experts, was unusual, the arbitration process provided the parties with a fundamentally fair arbitration and the arbitration award rested on a plausible interpretation of the governing arbitration documents.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/19/2008
• Decided 01/04/2010
• Published 01/04/2010

Judges

• Before SUSAN P. GRABER and RICHARD R. CLIFTON, Circuit Judges, and EDWARD F. SHEA,District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Andrew S. Amer and Deborah Lynn Stein, Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett LLP. Kathleen M. Sullivan (argued), Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP, Redwood Shores, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Margaret M. Grignon (argued), Reed Smith LLP, Los Angeles, CA; and Joseph K. Hegedus, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the respondents-appellees.