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GUEST-POST | Rectifying a Critical Flaw in the Arbitration Fairness Act of 2009
By Victoria VanBuren - April 27, 2009
By Philip Loree, Jr. Introduction The Loree Reinsurance and Arbitration Law Forum is pleased and honored that Victoria VanBuren of Disputing has invited us to guest blog on the Arbitration Fairness Act of 2009 (the “Arbitration Fairness Act”). Our blog shall likewise be featuring Victoria as a guest blogger from time-to-time. Victoria suggested that the Arbitration Fairness Act would be a particularly pertinent topic in light of the “Arbitration
Second Circuit Rules on Expenses of Arbitration
By Victoria VanBuren - April 9, 2009
Today, the Second Circuit decided ReliaStar Life Ins. Co, of N.Y. v. EMC Nat’l Life Co., No. 07-0828 (2nd Cir. Apr. 9, 2009). The court held that inclusion in an arbitration agreement of a broad statement that each party will bear the expenses of its own arbitrator and attorney’s fees does not deprive the arbitration panel of authority to award those expenses as a sanction against a party whom the panel determines failed to arbitrate
Fifth Circuit Compels Arbitration of Tort Claims
By Victoria VanBuren - March 25, 2009
This week, the Fifth Circuit decided Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society/ Omaha Woodmen Life Insurance Society v. JRY, No. 08-30405 (5th Cir. Mar. 23, 2009). The defendant-appellees (“JRY” and “TSY”) are parents suing on behalf of the Estate of their minor son (“BMY”) and the plaintiff-appellant Woodmen of the World (the “Society”) is a non-profit fraternal society that provides life insuran
Third Circuit: Nonsignatories Plantiffs Not Bound by Arbitration Agreement
By Victoria VanBuren - February 16, 2009
In contrast to the Texas case of last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held, in an employment discrimination and retaliation case, that forty-one plaintiffs who were not signatories to the arbitration agreement were not required to arbitrate. Mendez v. Puerto Rican Int’l Cos., No. 07-4053, (3rd Cir. 2009). The eight signatories plaintiffs, however, were compelled to arbitrate their claims. The court stated that section
Texas Supreme Court: Nonsignatories Wrongful Death Beneficiaries Must Arbitrate
By Victoria VanBuren - February 13, 2009
Today, the Texas Supreme Court handed down In re: Labatt Food Service, L.P., __ S.W.3d _ Texas (2009) (Cause No. 07-0419). The opinion resolves the issue of whether nonsignatories to an arbitration agreement should be compelled to arbitrate claims when the decedent’s claims would have to be arbitrated. On a related note, S.B. 222 is currently being considered by the Texas Legislature. The bill deals, in part, with the extension of the Texas
Unconscionable Arbitration Agreement: A First for Texas
By Victoria VanBuren - February 2, 2009
In a surprising decision (that almost went unnoticed because of the Holidays and warm Texas weather) arbitration provisions in an employment agreement were found unconscionable by the Texas Supreme Court. In re Poly-America, L.P., 262 S.W.3d 337 (Tex. 2008) involves a retaliatory-discharge claim under the Texas Worker’s Compensation Act (the “Act”) . Justice Brister filed a dissenting opinion. The facts of the case are as follows. In
Fifth Circuit Rejects Amway’s Arbitration Policy
By Rob Hargrove - February 13, 2008
About a week ago, the Fifth Circuit handed down an opinion in an Amway distributorship dispute (link is to .pdf file) which rejects, after a decade of arbitration and arbitrability litigation, a claim by Amway that certain disputes had to be arbitrated. As followers of this area are aware, a Fifth Circuit opinion rejecting arbitrability is noteworthy in and of itself. Amway, of course, is a company that sells products through distributors who in
Duress and Arbitration
By Rob Hargrove - April 24, 2007
This past Friday, while Karl and I attended the Austin Bar Association’s annual Bench Bar conference, the Texas Supreme Court handed down another mandamus, per curiam opinion reversing trial court and court of appeals decisions not to compel arbitration. The case involved an employee of RLS Legal Solutions (“RLS”) named Amy Cobb Maida (“Maida”) who worked as a sales rep for RLS from 1997 until 2002. As per her employ
Two Kinds of Arbitration
By Rob Hargrove - March 1, 2007
Frequent guest commenter Rick Freeman made an important point yesterday in a comment to our post on the Apache v. Texaco case. Rick said, commenting not only on the Apache case but also on our post about Sen. West’s proposal that information about arbitrations be compiled: Instead of a statute that says the decisions will be compiled, why not one that says that, in true arms length negotiated arbitration agreements, taxpayer financed Texas
TX Supreme Court Allows Non-Signatories to Compel Arbitration
By Rob Hargrove - December 22, 2006
The Texas Supreme Court has in the past year or two emphasized that non-signatories to arbitration agreements can still be required to arbitrate certain disputes. (see prior blog posts here, here, and here). This morning, the Court analyzed circumstances in which a non-signatory can actually compel arbitration pursuant to a contract to which the non-signatory was, of course, not a party. The majority opinion, written by Justice Hecht, continues t
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