{"id":4591,"date":"2014-12-17T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=4591"},"modified":"2019-10-28T10:36:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T10:36:12","slug":"u-s-court-appeals-reverses-district-court-decision-right-sue-enforces-arbitration-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-appeals-reverses-district-court-decision-right-sue-enforces-arbitration-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Court of Appeals Reverses District Court Decision on the Right to Sue and Enforces Arbitration Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Chicago has reversed the decision of a U.S. District Court judge wherein an agreement between the parties, Hennessy Industries Inc. and National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh<\/a>, required arbitration of any dispute that mandated an interpretation of the agreement. In this case, Hennessy Industries manufactured car parts. Since the 1980s, Hennessy has been the named defendant in many lawsuits for asbestos-related personal-injury cases. Hennessy has been looking to National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh for insurance coverage for these claims. The two companies entered into a cost-sharing agreement in 2008.<\/p>\n

When the lawsuits for asbestos-related injuries started coming in, Hennessy requested that National Union indemnify it for settlement and defense costs as provided for in their agreement. The two parties, however, could not come to an agreement as to what was owed. Hennessy demanded arbitration in line with the agreement, which provided for arbitration of disputes between the parties.<\/p>\n

Hennessy filed suit in 2013 under 215 ILCS 5\/155(1)<\/a>, maintaining that National Union\u2019s delays in granting coverage of the asbestos claims had been vexatious and unreasonable.<\/p>\n

Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Chicago has reversed the decision of a U.S. District Court judge wherein an agreement between the parties, Hennessy Industries Inc. and National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh, required arbitration of any dispute that mandated an interpretation of the agreement. In this case, Hennessy Industries […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[130,121,41,49,38,122,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arbitration","category-asbestos-litigation","category-breach-of-contract","category-business-litigation","category-federal-law","category-federal-pre-emption","category-indemnification-claims"],"yoast_head":"\nU.S. Court of Appeals Reverses District Court Decision on the Right to Sue and Enforces Arbitration Agreement — Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Chicago has reversed the decision of a U.S. District Court judge wherein an agreement between the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-appeals-reverses-district-court-decision-right-sue-enforces-arbitration-agreement\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"U.S. Court of Appeals Reverses District Court Decision on the Right to Sue and Enforces Arbitration Agreement — Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Chicago has reversed the decision of a U.S. District Court judge wherein an agreement between the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Robert Kreisman\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"U.S. Court of Appeals Reverses District Court Decision on the Right to Sue and Enforces Arbitration Agreement — Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","description":"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Chicago has reversed the decision of a U.S. District Court judge wherein an agreement between the","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-appeals-reverses-district-court-decision-right-sue-enforces-arbitration-agreement\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"U.S. Court of Appeals Reverses District Court Decision on the Right to Sue and Enforces Arbitration Agreement — Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","twitter_description":"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Chicago has reversed the decision of a U.S. District Court judge wherein an agreement between the","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Robert Kreisman","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-appeals-reverses-district-court-decision-right-sue-enforces-arbitration-agreement\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-appeals-reverses-district-court-decision-right-sue-enforces-arbitration-agreement\/"},"author":{"name":"Robert Kreisman","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/5e5596abf7be77fdabc788f0a78f042b"},"headline":"U.S. Court of Appeals Reverses District Court Decision on the Right to Sue and Enforces Arbitration Agreement","datePublished":"2014-12-17T16:00:11+00:00","dateModified":"2019-10-28T10:36:12+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-appeals-reverses-district-court-decision-right-sue-enforces-arbitration-agreement\/"},"wordCount":696,"articleSection":["Arbitration","Asbestos Litigation","Breach of Contract","Business Litigation","Federal Law","Federal Pre-emption","Indemnification Claims"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-appeals-reverses-district-court-decision-right-sue-enforces-arbitration-agreement\/","url":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-appeals-reverses-district-court-decision-right-sue-enforces-arbitration-agreement\/","name":"U.S. Court of Appeals Reverses District Court Decision on the Right to Sue and Enforces Arbitration Agreement — Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#website"},"datePublished":"2014-12-17T16:00:11+00:00","dateModified":"2019-10-28T10:36:12+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/5e5596abf7be77fdabc788f0a78f042b"},"description":"The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Chicago has reversed the decision of a U.S. District Court judge wherein an agreement between the","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-appeals-reverses-district-court-decision-right-sue-enforces-arbitration-agreement\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-appeals-reverses-district-court-decision-right-sue-enforces-arbitration-agreement\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/u-s-court-appeals-reverses-district-court-decision-right-sue-enforces-arbitration-agreement\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"U.S. Court of Appeals Reverses District Court Decision on the Right to Sue and Enforces Arbitration Agreement"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/","name":"Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog","description":"Published by Chicago Illinois Accident Attorney \u2014 Robert Kreisman","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/#\/schema\/person\/5e5596abf7be77fdabc788f0a78f042b","name":"Robert Kreisman","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58b55a1897459940cd9ce9dd16ac900f835174ed4e07875d30af769176f577ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58b55a1897459940cd9ce9dd16ac900f835174ed4e07875d30af769176f577ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58b55a1897459940cd9ce9dd16ac900f835174ed4e07875d30af769176f577ae?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Robert Kreisman"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com"]}]}},"yoast":{"focuskw":"","title":"","metadesc":"","linkdex":"","metakeywords":"","meta-robots-noindex":"","meta-robots-nofollow":"","meta-robots-adv":"","canonical":"","redirect":"","opengraph-title":"","opengraph-description":"","opengraph-image":"","twitter-title":"","twitter-description":"","twitter-image":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7H0vI-1c3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4591"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7500,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591\/revisions\/7500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}