Stewart

ORDER

The Memorandum filed on October 17, 2003, is withdrawn and replaced with the Amended Memorandum filed concurrently with this order.

With the filing of the Amended Memorandum, Plaintiff-Appellant’s petition for panel rehearing is denied.

The mandate shall issue forthwith.

*905 AMENDED MEMORANDUM ***

Plaintiff-Appellant Sara Stewart appeals an order of the district court confirming an arbitration award in favor of DefendantAppellee Rocky Mountain Hospital and Medical Service d/b/a Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nevada. The district court rejected Stewart’s argument that the Federal Arbitration Act was “reverse preempted” by the MeCarran-Ferguson Act and held that Nevada Revised Statute § 695B.181 could not be applied to invalidate the arbitration agreement. 1 We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm.

As the party who initially requested arbitration, Stewart has waived the right to challenge the enforceability of the arbitration provision pursuant to § 695B.181. 2 See, e.g., Nghiem v. NEC Elec., Inc., 25 F.3d 1437 , 1440 (9th Cir.1994) (reasoning that the party’s “voluntary initiation of arbitration can be interpreted as waiver of any objection he…