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U.S. LIFE INS. CO. v. SUPERIOR NAT. INS. CO.

No. 07-55938.

591 F.3d 1167 (2010)

UNITED STATES LIFE INSURANCE CO., Petitioner-Appellant, v. SUPERIOR NATIONAL INSURANCE CO., Superior Pacific Casualty Co., California Compensation Insurance Co., Commercial Compensation Insurance Co., and Combined Benefits Insurance Co., Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed January 4, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew S. Amer and Deborah Lynn Stein, Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett LLP. Kathleen M. Sullivan (argued), Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP, Redwood Shores, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.

Margaret M. Grignon (argued), Reed Smith LLP, Los Angeles, CA; and Joseph K. Hegedus, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the respondents-appellees.

Before: SUSAN P. GRABER and RICHARD R. CLIFTON, Circuit Judges, and EDWARD F. SHEA, District Judge.

E. SHEA, District Judge:

We are asked to determine whether an arbitration panel violated the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), 9 U.S.C. §§ 2-16. The process employed by the arbitration panel, which included an ex parte meeting with panel-retained workers' compensation experts, was unusual; however, after deferentially reviewing the panel's award, we determine that the arbitration process provided the parties with a fundamentally fair arbitration and that the...

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