(February 2, 2017, 10:24 AM EST) -- NEW YORK — A Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Jan. 31 affirmed a lower court’s confirmation of a number of international arbitration awards, finding that the arbitration umpire did not exhibit evident partiality to a retrocessional reinsurer (National Indemnity Company v. IRB Brasil Resseguros S.A., No. 16-1267, 2nd Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 1686)....