As a general rule, the insurance disputes are extremely fact-intensive.

Washington has regarded the international commission as the proper forum for resolving the insurance disputes.

And some employers that provide health care benefits have been shying away from insurance disputes because of lack of time or staff.

Arbitration Forums, he said, was organized 40 years ago to help reduce court congestion and mounting legal expenses in insurance disputes.

Nor did it include payments yet to come, chiefly from pending court cases and litigation costs, as well as continuing insurance disputes.

He litigated contract and insurance disputes.

Given the potential for significant insurance disputes, he said, his aim was to help clarify "what the law is - and what the rights of consumers and homeowners are."

Judge Holland wrote that the impact of the spill could not be overstated, in contrast to recent Supreme Court punitive damages cases involving insurance disputes and selling repainted cars.

The firm was defending Health Advocate, a company in suburban Philadelphia that helps patients resolve health care and insurance disputes, against a trademark action brought by a similarly named competitor.

LEAD: The Manville Corporation has reached an agreement with the American Centennial Insurance Company to settle insurance disputes stemming from damage claims filed by former asbestos workers.

Meanwhile, 1 in 9 was instrumental in establishing a Nassau-Suffolk Bar Association Legal Advocacy Project to provide breast cancer victims with pro-bono assistance in insurance disputes and other legal matters.

Mr. Pataki said he was intent on overcoming all of the obstacles to rebuilding Lower Manhattan, from the battles between architects designing the signature Freedom Tower to insurance disputes and bureaucratic sluggishness.

To the Editor: Re "Health Panel Declines to Endorse Laws for Patients' Bill of Rights" (front page, March 13): I am a lawyer who represents patients in health insurance disputes.

As a result, most legal systems worldwide apply common-law principles to the adjudication of commercial insurance disputes, whereby it is accepted that the insurer and the insured are more-or-less equal partners in the division of the economic burden of risk.

There he argued cases involving insurance disputes, personal injuries, real estate, commercial and corporate disputes, and bankruptcies, and received the Distinguished Service Award from the Young Lawyers Section of the Delaware State Bar Association.

The court deals specifically with all forms of contracts, torts, offenses and crimes under maritime law, including hearing cases of maritime trade contracts, bills of lading, common average, marine insurance disputes, maritime arbitration award recognition and enforcement (which the court refers to a subordinate court set up in Qinhuangdao.)

Then lawyers for State Farm and Richard F. Scruggs, who represents hundreds of storm victims and played a major role in drafting the settlement, flew to Gulfport on the coast, to seek the endorsement of Judge L. T. Senter Jr., the federal district judge overseeing most of the insurance disputes.