SKANDIA INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY MERCANTILE AND GENERAL REINSURANCE COMPANY GERLING-KONZERN GLOBALERUECKVERSICHERUNGS-GESELLSCHAFT UNIONRUECKVERSICHERUNGS GESELLSCHAFT ASSICURAZIONI GENERALI SpA HANOVER RUECKVERSICHERUNGS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTMUENCHENER RUECKVERSICHERUNGS GESELLSCHAFTVAL AMANA INSURANCE AND REINSURANCE COMPANY LTD

(1995) 4 Re LR 63

Supreme Court of Bermuda

Before Vincent W Meerabux, Acting Puisne Judge

Arbitration - Agreement - Stay - Whether Bermuda court had jurisdiction to restrain foreign legal proceedings brought in breach of arbitration agreement - Whether retrocedants’ seat lay in Bermuda, place of its incorporation, registration and regulation - Whether Bermuda was identified by arbitration clause of proportional treaty as agreed place of that treaty arbitration - Whether reinsurers’ challenge to competence of Kuwaiti Courts under 1958 New York Convention was submission to jurisdiction of Kuwaiti Court.