Jessica Port, George Reede, Jr. Although courts disagree on whether to refer to appraisal as “arbitration”, they are virtually unanimous regarding the practical differences between the two. For ...

A significant number of employers are opting to elect mandatory arbitration of potential disputes with employees as an alternative to state or federal courts. In some circumstances, arbitration can be ...

While it may sound like the title of a novel by Robert Ludlum, the Bermuda Form is in fact an excess liability insurance policy. The Bermuda Form, so called because it was introduced by two ...

With insurance premiums on the rise for doctors and hospitals across the country, Intermountain Health Care now requires patients in Bountiful and Salt Lake to sign arbitration agreements before they ...

An attempt to overturn an arbitration award based on one side's claim that it believed it was engaged in mediation, not binding arbitration—an “unusual circumstance,” as the court put it—has failed.

The Dispute Resolution Services (DRS) section of the Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO) has issued a new bulletin amending arbitration forms and outlining new rules for the use of an ...