Mealey's (November 19, 2020, 10:24 AM EST) -- SEATTLE — Insureds recently asked the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to reverse a lower federal court’s ruling that compelled arbitration of an insurance coverage dispute against English underwriters over $5.66 million in hurricane damage, arguing that Washington law through the operation of the McCarran-Ferguson Act reverse preempts the Convention on the Recognition of Foreign Arbitral Awards and its enabling legislation and bars the enforcement of mandatory arbitration clauses in foreign insurance policies (CLMS Management Services Ltd. Partnership, et al. v. AmWins Brokerage of Georgia LLC, et al., 20-35428, 9th Cir.)....