CONNECTICUT GENERAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, et al., Petitioners/Cross-Respondents/Appellees,
v.
SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA, et al., Respondents/Cross-Petitioners/Appellants,
v.
Unicover Managers, Inc., et al., Third-Party Respondents/Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued March 27, 2000.
Decided April 27, 2000.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Robert S. Soderstrom, Tressler, Soderstrom, Maloney & Priess, Chicago, IL, Harry P. Cohen, Clifford H. Schoenberg (argued), Rosenman & Colin, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee Connecticut General Life Insurance Company.
John Beerbower, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York, NY, Robert S. Soderstrom, Tressler, Soderstrom, Maloney & Priess, Chicago, IL, Harry P. Cohen, Clifford H. Schoenberg (argued), Rosenman & Colin, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-appellee Reliastar Life Insurance Company.
Michael J. Koenigsknecht, Gardner, Carton & Douglas, Chicago, IL, Stephen Stublarec, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, CA, Clifford H. Schoenberg (argued), Rosenman & Colin, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Lincoln National Health & Casualty Insurance Company.
Robert E. Shapiro, Barack, Ferrazzano, Kirschbaum, Perlman & Nagelberg, Chicago, IL, Peter R. Chaffetz (argued), Clifford, Chance, Rogers & Wells, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellants Sun Life Assurance Company, of Canada, Incorporated, Phoenix Home Life Mutual Insurance Company, American Phoenix Life and Reassurance Company.
Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and FLAUM and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
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...
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