Panel Rejects Halliburton’s Appeal, Holds Insurer’s Arbitrator Was Not Biased

(April 20, 2018, 1:11 PM EDT) -- LONDON — An England and Wales appeals panel on April 19 rejected an appeal filed by Halliburton Co. of a judge’s refusal to remove an insurer’s arbitrator, finding that although the arbitrator failed to disclose his involvement in other cases involving the insurer, the arbitrator was not biased (Halliburton Co. v. Chubb Bermuda Insurance Ltd., et al., No. [2018] EWCA Civ 817, England and Wales App.)....