Judge Refuses to Reconsider Remand of Midland Contract Dispute

NEW YORK - A federal judge has refused to reconsider his decision to remand a dispute between the liquidator of Midland Insurance Co. and a Serbian reinsurance company on the basis that the service-of-suit clause in the reinsurance agreements at issue requires that the action be heard in New York state court. Dinallo v. Dunav Insurance Co., No. 09-5575 (S.D. N.Y.).

On Feb. 1, Judge Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York denied Dunav Insurance Co.'s motion for reconsideration of the Nov. 19 order in which she held that the service-of-suit provision operates …