Judicial Estoppel Bid Doesn’t Stop Transfer Of Reinsurer’s Breach Suit

Mealey's (September 12, 2023, 1:23 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Concluding that judicial estoppel doesn’t apply and a reinsurer failed to meet its “burden of showing why the court should not transfer the case to the agreed-upon forum,” a California federal judge granted the defendants’ motion to transfer the case involving allegations of a fraudulent scheme to inflate provisional commissions and breach of various agreements....