UNITED STATES 1 July 2020 J B Hunt

United States District Court, Western District of Arkansas, Fayetteville Division, 1 July 2020, CASE NO. 5:20-CV-5049

(J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc. v. Steadfast Insurance Company et al.)

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UNITED STATES 1 July 2020 J B Hunt

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Summary

The Court granted the motion to compel arbitration under the New York Convention, finding that the Convention superseded Arkansas law, which barred the enforcement of binding arbitration clauses in insurance contracts. The Court explained that the McCarran-Ferguson Act, which provided that “no Act of Congress shall be construed to invalidate, impair, or supersede any law enacted by any State for the purpose of regulating the business of insurance”, did not apply to the Convention.

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The court discusses whether a certain dispute could be settled by arbitration, and the law applicable to that determination.

Arbitrability (see also Art. V(2) sub ground a. "arbitrability", ¶519)
UNITED STATES 1 July 2020 J B Hunt