TRANSPORTATION ARBITRATION AND MEDIATION, P.L.L.C
1920 N Street, NW (8th fl.)
Washington, DC 20036
Tel.: (202) 263-4152 Fax: (202) 331-8330
E-mail: xiccgc@att.net

www.transportationarbitration.com

Transportation Arbitration and Mediation, P.L.L.C, offers a group of Surface Transportation Board and Interstate Commerce Commission experienced and industry knowledgeable professionals for the arbitration and mediation of a wide variety of transportation related controversies.

Organized to manage the arbitration of appeals from decisions of the National Classification Committee of the National Motor Freight Traffic Association, as mandated by the STB, the personnel available to handle these appeals are familiar with classification factors and, accordingly, will be able to reach their conclusions as to the reasonableness of the changed classification ratings within the thirty days provided by the rules.

Disagreements between shippers and carriers as to freight loss and damage claims invariably arise, and to have them resolved quickly and inexpensively by professionals who are unaffiliated with shipper or carrier groups and yet who need not be educated about such matters as the Carmack Amendment and inadvertence clauses should be a boon to the industry.

There are disputes as to the application of demurrage or detention charges and reconsignment or storage-in-transit privileges, and these can be resolved in little time and at relatively low lost by experienced and qualified practitioners, most of whom have considerable arbitration or mediation experience.

Finally, there often are controversies relating to the frequency of switching and the adequacy of car supply between short line railroads and their trunk line connections which are better resolved informally, through mediation, rather than pursuant to the formal arbitration procedures that industry agreements may call for.

Transportation Arbitration and Mediation, P.L.L.C., is managed by Fritz R. Kahn, who maintains an active Washington, DC, practice before the STB, FRA and FMCSA, representing shippers, governmental agencies, short line railroads and motor carriers. He is a former General Counsel of the Interstate Commerce Commission
 

FRITZ R. KAHN, MANAGER

Fritz R. Kahn is a lawyer specializing in the field of administrative and transportation law. With offices at 1920 N Street, NW (8th fl.), Washington, DC 20036-1601, Mr. Kahn represents shippers, governmental bodies, short line railroads and motor carriers before the Surface Transportation Board, Federal Railroad Administration, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and reviewing courts.

Mr. Kahn has been retained as an expert witness on a variety of transportation regulatory issues.

Mr. Kahn served as commerce counsel for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company, the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad and Monongahela Railway before their acquisitions by other railroads. On behalf of Mobil Chemical Company, Vista Chemical Company and Shell Oil Company, he handled major rate cases against the railroads serving them. He has represented the Nation's largest motor carrier of passengers since 1987.

Mr. Kahn entered the private practice after serving six years as General Counsel of the Interstate Commerce Commission, predecessor of the STB. As the agency's chief legal officer, he, among other things, argued the Northern Lines case before the Supreme Court, leading to the establishment of today's BNSF.

Author of Principles of Motor Carrier Regulation and the second edition of Miller's Law of Freight Loss and Damage Claims, Mr. Kahn is a frequent contributor to transportation law journals -- most recently "Backfire," in the Spring 2003 issue of the Journal of Transportation Law, Logistics and Policy.

Mr. Kahn was qualified as an Administrative Law Judge by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and as an Arbitrator by the American Arbitration Association. In 2004 he organized and currently serves as the manager of Transportation Arbitration and Mediation, P.L.L.C., a select group of STB/ICC experienced and industry knowledgeable professionals qualified to arbitrate or mediate a wide variety of transportation related disputes.

Mr. Kahn is an Order of the Coif and Law Review graduate of the National Law Center of the George Washington University and a Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa graduate of the Columbian College of the University.

He is a member, among other bar associations, of the Association of Transportation Law, Logistics and Policy, of which he was President in 1988-89, the Transportation Research Forum, of which he was General Counsel from 1979 to 1987, and the Transportation Lawyers Association.

 

ARBITRATORS

 

John L. Alfano	Lester M. Brigeman	Thomas J. Burke, Jr.	Betty Jo Christian
Emeried D. Cole, Jr.	James L. Howe III	Fritz R. Kahn	Miles L. Kavaller
John H. Kirkemo	Louis Mackall, V	A. Daniel O'Neal	Edward J.Reidy
May K. Reynolds	Janice M. Rosenak	Henri F. Rush	Elaine Sehrt-Green
William H. Shawn	Kenneth E. Siegel	Reese H. Taylor, Jr.	Frank J. Weiner

Brief biographies of the Arbitrators will be provided upon request.

 

 

 

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