Scottish Re Life Corp. v. Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance

Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Company (“Transamer-ica”) has appealed an order awarding provisional relief pending the parties’ arbitration. See N.C. Gen. Stat. § l-569.8(a) (2005) (“Before an arbitrator is appointed and is authorized and able to act, the court, upon motion of a party to an arbitration proceeding and for good cause shown, may enter an order for provisional remedies to protect the effectiveness of the arbitration proceeding to the same extent and under the same conditions as if the controversy were the subject of a civil action.”). I note that a “provisional remedy” is: