2-1 The recovering company initiates arbitration by filing via AF's website. Evidence must be attached to the filing when it is submitted.
It provides for a period of limitation of three years from the date when the right to apply accrues. Therefore, the Supreme Court has held that the period of limitation for application for appointment of an arbitrator under Section 11 shall be three years from the date when the right to apply accrues.
Section 29A of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (“Act”), inserted vide theAmending Act of 2015 (w.e.f. 23.10. 2015), was meant to introduce time limit for completion of arbitration proceedings. It prescribed a statutory period of 12 (twelve) months from the date the arbitral tribunal enters upon reference.
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What is the monetary limit for the Special Arbitration Forum? Compulsory arbitration is applicable to a maximum of $250,000 contribution sought per claim. Claims for separate parties arising out of the same accident, occurrence, or event are considered separate claims.
Founded by the insurance industry in 1943, Arbitration Forums (AF) is a membership-driven, not-for-profit organization that exists to effectively and efficiently serve its over 5,100 members' recovery and resolution needs. AF is the nation's largest arbitration and subrogation services provider.
From this humble beginning, commercial arbitration has grown and today it is formalised and anchored on fundamental principles, namely, principle of party autonomy, principle of arbitrability, principle of separability, principle of judicial nonintervention and doctrine/principle of kompetenz-kompetenz.
Every arbitrator must be and remain impartial and independent of the parties involved in the arbitration. Before appointment or confirmation, a prospective arbitrator shall sign a statement of acceptance, availability, impartiality and independence.
(2) An arbitration agreement may be in the form of an arbitration clause in a contract or in the form of a separate agreement. (3) An arbitration agreement shall be in writing. (c) an exchange of statements of claim and defence in which the existence of the agreement is alleged by one party and not denied by the other.