Legal Opinion

Merit Insurance Company v. Leatherby Insurance Company A/K/A Western Employers Insurance Company

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided February 28, 1984No. 82-2885PublishedCited by 45 opinions

1Per curiam

On December 1, 1980, a panel of arbitrators awarded Merit Insurance Company $10,675,000 in a dispute with Leatherby Insurance Company. The district judge confirmed this award by order of November 19, 1981, and incorporated in that order an award of interest on the $10,675,000 at the rate of 8 percent per annum from December 1, 1980. On September 2, 1982, however, on Leatherby’s motion under Fed.R.Civ.P. 60(b), the district judge set aside the arbitrators’ award. Merit appealed to us, and on July 12, 1983, we reversed and directed the district judge “to reinstate the previous judgment,” i.e.,…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Merit Insurance Company v. Leatherby Insurance Company A/K/A Western Employers Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1983
  2. Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 93,670 John Bershad v. Bernard P. McDonough and Cudahy CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1972
  3. Oliver T. Carr, Jr. v. District of Columbia, a Municipal CorporationCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1976
  4. Willie Byrd v. Hunt Tool Shipyards, Inc., Pulmosan Safety Equipment CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1981
  5. Western Transportation Company v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours and CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1982

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3Cited by45 opinions

  1. Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. v. BonjornoSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
  2. Manuel KAPLAN; Carol Kaplan; MK Investments, Inc., Appellants, v. FIRST OPTIONS OF CHICAGO, INC., AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1994
  3. Gunther Graefenhain and Philip Miller, Cross-Appellees v. Pabst Brewing Company, Cross-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1989
  4. Timothy L. WOODS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SATURN DISTRIBUTION CORPORATION, a Delaware Corporation, Defendant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1996
  5. Glass, Molders, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers International Union, Afl-Cio, Clc, Local 182b v. Excelsior Foundry CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1995

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