Final Judgment Entered In $13.8M Reinsurance Arbitration Award Dispute

( June 11, 2026, 12:37 PM EDT) -- BURLINGTON, Vt. — Final judgment was entered in favor of a ceding insurer and against a group of reinsurers after a Vermont federal judge confirmed a facultative reinsurance arbitration award arising from the cedent’s payment of a $100 million policy limit for a restatement-related claim, holding that the reinsurers waived and failed to prove evident partiality, that the arbitrator acted within a broad honorable-engagement clause in rejecting their asserted right to full de novo coverage review and that the reinsurers failed to show manifest disregard of the law....