US District Judge William Pauley, of the US federal court in New York, confirmed the award and rejected arguments by Zurich American Insurance and chemicals charterer Vinmar that the chairman of the arbitration panel, Donald Szostak, should have disclosed his medical condition.
As TradeWinds has reported, Zurich and Vinmar have been battling to force Norway’s Eitzen to pay $1.74m over alleged damage to a 3,500-tonne parcel cargo of acrylonitrile shipped on a 2008 voyage of the shipowner’s 46,000-dwt Siteam
