Arbitration & Mediation Services
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.
For an updated list of arbitrators, click here.
