Union Electric Co. v. AEGIS Energy Syndicate 1225, No. 12-3546 (8th Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CaseAEGIS, an insurer, appealed from the district court's denial of its motion to compel alternative dispute resolution in its dispute with UEC. The court agreed with the district court that by agreeing in the endorsement of the contract to submit to the jurisdiction of Missouri state courts, AEGIS agreed to have any dispute relating to the insurance or to the claim resolved in those courts. Thus, the endorsement entirely supplanted the condition's mandatory arbitration provision. Even if the policy as a whole were ambiguous as to the mandatory arbitration, the court concluded that UEC would still prevail because it would be entitled to have the ambiguity resolved in its favor. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
Court Description: Civil case - Insurance. Endorsement in which the parties agreed to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of the State of Missouri entirely supplanted the agreement's mandatory arbitration provision. [ April 18, 2013
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