The United States District Court for the District of South Carolina has held that an insurance policy’s alternative dispute resolution condition precedent prior to initiating litigation was not satisfied where the parties communicated with the mediator during the provision’s cooling-off period, even though the parties disputed whether the communications concerned insurance coverage. Allied World Surplus Lines Ins. Co. v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of N.C., 2017 WL 3671172 (D.S.C. Aug. 24, 2017).
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