8th Circuit Partly Dismisses Interlocutory Appeal Over Excess Collateral Cross-Claim

Mealey's (January 26, 2022, 1:36 PM EST) -- ST. LOUIS — After two of the three parties involved reported in a Jan. 19 stipulation that the interlocutory appeal as between them “has been fully compromised and settled,” the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Jan. 24 granted dismissal only as to that dispute; the appeal concerns a Minnesota federal judge’s denial of a motion to dismiss or compel arbitration on cross-claims in an interpleader suit over excess collateral in an insurance-reinsurance program....