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The decision confirms that an arbitration agreement will be upheld in the face of insolvency proceedings only if it can be shown that the petition debt is genuinely disputed on substantial grounds....more
Two days before the United States Supreme Court ruled in Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries Park St., LLC, that the Federal Arbitration Act’s (FAA) transportation worker exemption (meaning the FAA would not apply) extends beyond...more
Germany is in the process of renewing its arbitration law, which in its current version dates from 1997. In April 2023, the German Federal Ministry of Justice (the “Ministry”) published a Key Issues Paper, identifying...more
Conditions Precedent- In this appeal, the Eighth Appellate Court affirmed in part the trial court’s determination that Defendant breached its contract with Plaintiff disagreeing with Defendant-appellant that Plaintiff failed...more
Arbitration continues to be a growing preference for dispute resolution. Mandatory arbitration provisions are found in a variety of commercial contracts, especially in consumer agreements. In fact, it has been reported in a...more
Ohio- Agent’s Liability Under Contract- Nat’l Church Residences v. Kessler, 3rd Dist. Union, No. 2023-Ohio-1437. The Third Appellate District reversed the trial court’s decision to grant the plaintiff summary judgment,...more
In a per curiam opinion issued February 8, 2023 in Cnty. of Passaic v. Horizon Healthcare Servs., Inc., No. A-0952-21, 2023 N.J. Super. LEXIS 10, at *3 (App. Div. Feb. 8, 2023), the New Jersey Appellate Division held that an...more
On November 10, 2022, the Supreme Court of Canada (the "SCC") released its long-awaited decision in Peace River Hydro Partners v Petrowest Corp., 2022 SCC 41 (“Peace River”), which addresses the interaction between insolvency...more
When does a claim for $50,000 against your business end up costing you two or three times that amount? When you lose the case you’re litigating, in full or in part, and you end up owing years of interest and attorneys’ fees...more
The Commercial Court of England and Wales has outlined limitations of the doctrine of “separability,” i.e., the notion that an arbitration agreement within a commercial contract is distinct from the main contract itself, in a...more
Virtually every aspect of our lives has been disrupted in one way or another as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic collapse. While certain of these disruptions have been difficult to predict, at least...more
Business customers that agreed to arbitrate disputes cannot “piggyback” their claims onto a consumer class action in court, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled....more
Most businesses are generally familiar with arbitration, but the details of the process can sometimes be a bit murky. Whenever parties engage in arbitration, those unknown details can cause confusion and anxiety for even the...more
In today’s competitive marketplace, most companies either cannot afford or do not wish to incur the time, expense and adverse business consequences of traditional litigation. Unfortunately, in every business relationship...more
Arbitration is a creature of contract, and an arbitrator’s powers are in effect defined by the parties’ arbitration agreement. Paradoxically, although an arbitration agreement can be written (double-spaced) on one side of a...more
The Indian court system has gained an unfortunate reputation for being notoriously slow, cumbersome, unpredictable, and unreliable, which makes solving commercial disputes in India a challenging ordeal. India ranks near the...more
In a decision that will affect commercial arbitration agreements across the Commonwealth, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) recently held in Katz, Nannis & Solomon, P.C. v. Levine that judicial review of...more