Legal Opinion
Washburn v. Corcoran
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 15, 1986No. 85 Civ. 2674 (PNL)PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
LEVAL, District Judge.
This action involves a conflict between the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq. (1976), and the McCarran-Ferguson Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1011, et seq. (1982). The action is brought by the Illinois Director of Insurance, as Rehabilitator of Optimum Insurance Company of Illinois, against the New York State Superintendent of Insurance, as Liquidator of Ideal Mutual Insurance Company. The action seeks to compel arbitration. The facts are not disputed.
Ideal and Optimum entered into a reinsurance agreement on April 1, 1980 which contained an arbitration…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. v. ByrdSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Burford v. Sun Oil Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Securities & Exchange Commission v. National Securities, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Levy v. LewisCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1980
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3Cited by29 opinions
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- George Fabe, Superintendent of Insurance, State of Ohio v. United States Department of the Treasury Mitchell A. Levine, Assistant CommissionerCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1991
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