(December 1, 2015, 1:33 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — A group of London-based retrocessional reinsurers and their retrocessional reinsured spared recently in a federal court in New York over whether the retrocessional reinsured’s arguments questioning the qualifications of certain arbitration umpire candidates have already been rejected by the court in an earlier decision (Odyssey Reinsurance Company v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s London Syndicate 53, et al., No. 13-cv-09014, S.D. N.Y.).

(Lloyd’s response to Odyssey’s brief on appointment of an umpire filed Nov. 6, 2015, available. Document #12-151113-023B.)

Odyssey Reinsurance Co., formerly known...