Arbitration continues to be popular with many employers. Two significant factors driving employers to arbitration, and away from state and federal courts, are the potential for lower defense costs and reduced risk of runaway jury awards that seem to be more common than ever before. Many lawyers think the benefits of arbitration are overstated and
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Eighth Circuit Jurisdictional Ruling Offers a Lesson in Drafting Arbitration Agreements
By Patrick Smith on
Posted in Arbitration, Eighth Circuit
My Fredrikson & Byron colleague Brandon Underwood is the author of today’s guest-post:
On May 31, 2019, in Webb v. Farmers of North America, Inc. (No. 17-3456), the Eighth Circuit dismissed an employer’s appeal challenging how the lower court had read an arbitration agreement. The employer, citing the agreement with its employee, had actually persuaded…