Where an arbitration clause provides that parties “may” submit their disputes to arbitration, does this mean that arbitration is mandatory or merely permissive? What is the effect of a proviso in an ...

At the time of contracting, few people are thinking of why or how the contract might be breached and what happens if so. However, a forum ...

Last year a firestorm erupted after General Mills, the maker of Bisquick, Cheerios, and other food brands, changed the legal terms on its website, requiring that all disputes related to the purchase ...

LEESBURG, Fla. — A homeowner in Lake County claims a contractor kept his big deposit for a job that was never completed, but an arbitration clause is denying him a day in court. Action 9 investigates ...

Blue Origin just lost a court battle over its own arbitration agreement – and every HR team in California should be paying ...

Increasingly, small-business contracts include arbitration clauses that seek to limit potential lawsuits. Mark Davis, a partner with Davis Levin Livingston, offers these tips to help you understand ...

Risk for particular losses are often shared among several insurers. But what happens if following an insured's claim against four insurers, only one of the four insurance policies contains a mandatory ...

In this fourth and final article of the series, the author asked four independent arbitrators to share their views based on their firsthand experience reviewing and opining on arbitration agreements.

The Supreme Court held that a collaborator essential to contract execution and bound through a Deed of Joint Undertaking can invoke the arbitration clause despite not being a direct ...

Goldman Sachs and Apple have included an arbitration provision in the Apple Card customer agreement. It basically means you can't join a class action lawsuit against either company, experts said.

Gretchen Carlson is both extraordinary—in her cultural visibility, in her multimillion-dollar career, in her personal accomplishments—and utterly ordinary. When she filed a lawsuit in July alleging ...