The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently issued its opinion in Trustmark Ins. Co. v. John Hancock Life Ins. Co., a case that both the reinsurance and general arbitration communities have been following closely.  In a unanimous opinion, the Seventh Circuit reversed the District Court’s decision to hold that a party-appointed arbitrator’s prior involvement in an earlier arbitration between the parties did not disqualify him or render him incapable of serving in a subsequent arbitration involving related issues. …
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