( June 26, 2026, 12:55 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A New York federal judge granted a reinsurer’s cross-motion to confirm a final arbitration award and denied an intergovernmental risk pool’s Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) vacatur petition in a dispute over a $9.2 million catastrophic injury settlement, holding that the arbitration panel did not manifestly disregard reinsurance, settlement or contract law in finding that the risk pool acted in bad faith and that its challenges largely sought impermissible review of the panel’s factual findings and contract interpretation....