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Lawyers for the former head of a large insurer say arbitrators have concluded that he was dismissed without cause.

A 3-member panel assigned by the American Arbitration Association, New York, has ruled unanimously that Massachusetts Mutual Insurance Company, Springfield, Mass., failed to follow the process spelled out in the contract of Robert O'Connell when it fired him from his posts as chairman, president and chief executive officer in June 2005, according to O'Connell's press representatives.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, ThinkAdvisor's insurance editor, previously was LifeHealthPro's health insurance editor. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter at @Think_Allison.