To ensure compliance with current California and Federal law and to benefit from recent court decisions, it is time for employers to review and update their employee arbitration agreements. Employers ...

Pursuant to federal appellate law, the timely filing of a petition for rehearing postpones the issuance of the mandate until disposition of the petition. In effect, this means that until the 9 th ...

A spate of recent battles over arbitration agreements may force courts and lawmakers to once again tackle who can enter one on behalf of a nursing home resident — and whether they can ever be mandated ...

A Florida appeals court has upheld a law that caps noneconomic damages at $350,000 in medical malpractice cases when a voluntary arbitration offer is rejected. The state’s Third District Court of ...

Section 44.104 of the Florida Statutes empowers the parties in most civil proceedings to resolve their disputes by "voluntary trial resolution" or statutory arbitration rather than conventional ...

As noted in my preview last week, GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS v Outokumpu Stainless USA is the Supreme Court’s first arbitration case of the 2019 term. For observers familiar with the ...