Middlesex Mutual Insurance Company v. Stuart Levine

How courts have described this case

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• affirming the vacation of an award because arbitrator failed to disclose a legal dispute between his family’s company and one of the parties to the arbitration
• affirming district court’s vacating of arbitration award based on “adversarial and close financial relations that existed for a period of years” between the arbitrator and one of the parties
• “The ‘reasonable impression of bias’ standard is thus interpreted practically rather than with utmost rigor.”
• \To hold ... that [a party] waived [its] right to contest the alleged impartiality of the neutral arbitrator because [it] did not discover evidence of partiality prior to arbitration would put a premium on concealment.\
• “To hold ... that [a party] waived [its] right to contest the alleged impartiality of the neutral arbitrator because [it] did not discover evidence of partiality prior to arbitration would put a premium on concealment.”
• “By positing that appellants have the duty to inquire into the background of the arbitrator, appellant attempts to shift to the parties to the arbitration the burden of determining and disclosing bias or the reasonable appearance thereof.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).