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| March 30, 2012

Consensual Alteration of Arbitration Clauses

Complaints about reinsurance arbitration clog conference agendas and fill up the trade publications. Among the complaints are those about the party-appointed arbitrator system, which allows arbitrators to be predisposed to the appointing party; i.e., an advocate arbitrator.

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