Insurer’s Liquidators Push For U.S. Supreme Court Review Of Arbitration Issue

Mealey's (November 16, 2020, 12:29 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — “With the shoe on the other foot,” liquidators of an insolvent health insurer argue in their Nov. 13 reply brief to the U.S. Supreme Court that an actuarial firm “tries to duck review of an issue” that it is requesting be taken up in a similar case and petition for writ of certiorari by suggesting that the Iowa high court interpreted state law when ordering arbitration of common-law tort claims based upon an arbitration provision in the insurer and firm’s preinsolvency agreement (Doug Ommen, et al. v. Milliman, Inc., et al., No. 20-249, U.S. Sup.)....