Opinion ID: 1436064
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 29

Heading: Whether The District Court Properly Compelled Arbitration

Text: In sum, under general principles of Pennsylvania contract law, the retrocessional agreements each incorporated and applied the pertinent reinsurance treaties' arbitration clauses. First, inasmuch as the terms of the unambiguous retrocessional agreements reflect that the parties incorporated the arbitration clauses to form agreements to arbitrate, the incorporation resulted in valid agreements between Century and Lloyd's to arbitrate certain disputes. Second, inasmuch as the arbitration agreements' scope included disputes arising from the retrocessional agreements, the dispute in this case over Lloyd's's obligations under the agreements falls within that scope. Accordingly, because there was a valid agreement to arbitrate between Century and Lloyd's and because the particular dispute here falls within the scope of valid arbitration agreements, we hold that the District Court properly compelled Century to submit the dispute to arbitration.