Insurer Takes Fight To Arbitrate Garlock Coverage Dispute To 4th Circuit

(September 25, 2018, 2:13 PM EDT) -- CHARLOTTE, N.C. — An asbestos insurer on Sept. 17 asked the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to decide if a North Carolina federal court correctly ruled that the insurer’s obligations to the Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC bankruptcy estate under a $5 million policy must be determined through litigation, not arbitration (Safety National Casualty Corp. v. Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC, et al., No. 3:17-cv-00458, W.D. N.C.)....