Year 2024

A TRIBUTE TO THE TRIBUNAL: FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERCOMPANY ARBITRATIONA TRIBUTE TO THE TRIBUNAL FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERCOMPANY ARBITRATION    You’ve decided to opt in for a three (3) Arbitrator hearing for your next subrogation case.  You view it’s the way to go due to the complexity of the issues involved and the back-and-forth stalemate with the … Continued

TO THE POWER AND PROTOCOL OF THREE: FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERCOMPANY ARBITRATIONTO THE POWER AND THE PROTOCOL OF THREE FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERCOMPANY ARBITRATION    You’ve decided to go the three Arbitrator route; your claim amount sought over the $ 15,000 mark.  The case filed and ‘ready to be heard’.  What is the distinguishable difference with the … Continued

THE NBA USES THEM … WHY NOT YOU ?: FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERCOMPANY ARBITRATIONTHE NBA USES THEM … WHY NOT YOU ? FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERCOMPANY ARBITRATION    Let’s look at some essential basics when it comes to considering whether your next intercompany Arbitration case should be heard by one Arbitrator or if the facts and Evidence … Continued

THE HAPPENSTANCE OF RULE 3-3: FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERCOMPANY ARBITRATIONTHE HAPPENSTANCE OF RULE 3-3 FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERCOMPANY ARBITRATION    It’s true … the subrogation generation today might not believe it; but it really happened.  Back in the day of coordinating intercompany arbitration hearings; we’d have two stacks of cases   for the Arbitrator’s to hear.  We may … Continued

REINING ARBITRATION FOR THE HOLIDAYS: THE GREATEST PANEL OF NINEREINING ARBITRATION FOR THE HOLIDAYS THE GREATEST PANEL OF NINE    St. Nichols would have made a great Arbitrator … good, kind and decisive while definitely delivering Awards on time.  We know his nine Reindeer would have loved the Arbitration process.  We tandem them up in … Continued

PLEASE HOLD WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK: FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERCOMPANY ARBITRATIONPLEASE HOLD WE’LL BE RIGHT BACK FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERCOMPANY ARBITRATION    Calling one of your service providers (phone, internet or home delivery, et al) … you may have experienced this.  The dreaded waiting for your inquiry to be ‘answered’.  In the intercompany Arbitration world … that … Continued

THIRTY-DAYS TO RSVP: FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERCOMPANY ARBITRATIONTHIRTY-DAYS TO RSVP FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERCOMPANY ARBITRATION    There are some Rules tied to the intercompany arbitration process that are frankly so straightforward that (if you’re writing a Blog) you have to dig deep for what to say and advocate about them.  Rule 3-1 fits that criteria.  Let’s discuss … Continued

KEEPING IT JUST BETWEEN THE PARTIES: FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERCOMPANY ARBITRATIONKEEPING IT JUST BETWEEN THE PARTIES FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERCOMPANY ARBITRATION    One of the hallmarks of Arbitration is the private and confidential nature of the proceedings.  Generally this is first mentioned within the Arbitration contract or Agreement.  It then often flows into the set of Rules … Continued

THE COURSE FOR YOUR RECOURSE: FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERCOMPANY ARBITRATIONTHE COURSE FOR YOUR RECOURSE FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERCOMPANY ARBITRATION    We know that under the UAA (the Uniform Arbitration Act) there are three (3) primary grounds to modify or correct an Arbitrator’s Award.  Those Motions a bit divergent from an Appeal but instructive as a primer for … Continued

IS THIS THE ANTITHESIS OF ARBITRATION: FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERCOMPANY ARBITRATIONIS THIS THE ANTITHESIS OF ARBITRATION FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERCOMPANY ARBITRATION    My first day at the American Arbitration Association (circa – 1987) … ‘Arbitration is a final and binding process’.  Enough said … even as a case administrator trainee; I got the concept.  Whatever the Arbitrator … Continued