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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As we all know, courts throughout Florida have halted in-person jury trials for almost all of 2020 due to COVID-19. Unfortunately, despite the prospect of a vaccine being widely distributed and ...

This study empirically examines the widespread belief that voluntarily negotiated agreements produce better long-run relationships than do third-party imposed resolutions, such as arbitrator decisions ...

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 ...

The Economic Policy Institute estimates that about two-thirds of California employers require their employees to arbitrate employment-related disputes, giving up the right to submit those claims to a ...

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 ...