Court Improperly Vacated Arbitration Award, Panel Says In Crop Coverage Suit

(February 1, 2019, 1:03 PM EST) -- ST. LOUIS — The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Jan. 31 found that a lower federal court erred in vacating arbitrators’ $1,433,008 award for an insured’s corn crop damage, vacating and remanding after concluding the “arbitrators rendered a sufficiently mutual, final, and definite award” (Great American Insurance Company v. Jonathan L. Russell, No. 17-2441, 8th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 3140)....