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

Heading: introduction

Text: This matter comes on before this Court on an appeal by appellant Century Indemnity Company (Century) from two orders of the District Court, one entered May 18, 2006, granting a motion of appellee Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, London (Lloyd's) to compel arbitration of a disputed claim based on a set of reinsurance-of-reinsurance agreements, and one entered May 30, 2008, denying Century's motion to vacate an arbitration panel's subsequent award in favor of Lloyd's. Inasmuch as we conclude both that there was a valid agreement to arbitrate between Century and Lloyd's and that the dispute in this case falls within the scope of that agreement, we hold that the District Court properly compelled the parties to submit their dispute to arbitration. Moreover, because we reject Century's argument that the arbitration panel deprived it of a fair hearing when the panel excluded certain evidence that Century proposed to introduce, we also hold that the District Court properly denied Century's motion to vacate the arbitration panel's award.