UHL v. KOMATSU FORKLIFT CO., LTD.

No. 07-1044.

512 F.3d 294 (2008)

Donna UHL, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Lynn Uhl, Plaintiff-Appellee, Pacific Employer's Insurance Company, Intervenor-Plaintiff-Appellee, v. KOMATSU FORKLIFT COMPANY, LTD.; Komatsu Forklift, U.S.A., Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: January 9, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Fred J. Fresard, Bowman & Brooke, Troy, Michigan, for Appellants. David R. Skinner, Skinner Professional Law Corp., Bay City, Michigan, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Fred J. Fresard, Bowman & Brooke, Troy, Michigan, for Appellants. David R. Skinner, Skinner Professional Law Corp., Bay City, Michigan, for Appellee.

Before: SILER, MOORE, and GILMAN, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

KAREN NELSON MOORE, Circuit Judge.

In this case, the appellants challenge the validity of an arbitration award where one of the party-selected arbitrators had previously and occasionally served as co-counsel with the attorney representing the intervening plaintiff in the instant case. Because we conclude that this relationship did not violate the arbitration agreement or rise to the level of evident partiality, we AFFIRM the district...

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