Recently, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court’s decision finding a delegation clause in an arbitration agreement to be both procedurally and substantively unconscionable and, ...

Professor Jeff Sovern recently blogged about the FTC’s June 2023 revisions to its Endorsement Guide. The Guide helps advertisers and endorsers make sure that their advertising using endorsements or ...

Companies often include an arbitration clause in their terms and conditions.mattjeacock/Getty Images Companies are using a simple strategy to avoid courtroom litigation when disaster strikes: the fine ...

An agreement to arbitrate can empower the parties and afford them a good deal of control over the dispute resolution process. A well-constructed arbitration clause can provide certainty by outlining ...

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 ...

January 4, 2024 - On Dec. 5, 2023, the Office of the Investor Advocate (OIAD) published its Report on Activities for the Fiscal Year 2023, an annual report it submits to Congress regarding the ...

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Employers who rely on arbitration clauses to keep harassment cases out of court just got a serious wake-up call from Ohio.

A former girlfriend of onetime Google CEO Eric Schmidt will have to arbitrate her claims that he stole business from under her, sexually assaulted her twice during their relationship and used his ...

A federal appeals court just handed employers a wake-up call: one harassment claim can void your entire arbitration agreement.