Arbitrators Will Determine Preclusive Effect of Arbitration Award in Boy Scouts Molestation Case

BOSTON — An arbitration panel will decide whether a prior arbitration award issued in a dispute over reinsurance billings for sexual molestation claims filed against Boy Scouts of America (BSA) applies to a second set of reinsurance billings that did not follow the same allocation method as the first set of billings.

In an Oct. 26 docket entry, Judge Denise Casper of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts denied Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s London’s motion for reconsideration, letting stand her ruling that “the preclusive effect of an arbitration award is an arbitrable issue that is not for …