Legal Opinion
Connecticut General Life Insurance v. Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 27, 2000No. 99-4085, 99-4106PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
These consolidated appeals ask: When does a federal district court have the power to order the consolidation of arbitration proceedings before a single arbitral panel? The question grows out of a reinsurance contract between two (overlapping) sets of insurance companies. One set, the three “retrocessionaires” (Sun, Phoenix, and Cologne), agreed to reinsure workers’ compensation reinsurance policies issued by the other set, the seven “retrocedents.” (Two of the retrocessionaires, Phoenix and Cologne, are also retrocedents.) For clarity we’ll call the retrocessionaires the…
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