The new form in patients’ paperwork: Binding arbitration agreements As private equity firms acquire medical groups, their patients may notice a new piece of paperwork pushed their way — a form for ...

While most business transactions never come to a dispute, and many of the ones that do will be resolved by good faith discussion between the parties, it is not unusual to have agreements define how a ...

The importance of arbitration as a liability risk mitigation tool has risen precipitously as a result of the sharp uptick in class action litigation pursued for ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a rule Wednesday to rein in arbitration clauses in a second attempt to block companies from limiting consumers' legal rights or their ability to sue ...

Last year, Jessie Harrell went to see her gynecologist for a routine appointment. She’d been seeing Dr. Tim Baird for 14 years, ever since she showed up at the hospital in labor five weeks early. He’d ...

An Illinois nursing home can avoid a court battle over a personal injury claim, thanks to an appellate court’s finding that its contract “clearly” gave its arbitrator the right to decide which cases ...

A discussion of 'Wu v. Uber Techs., Inc.,' where the New York Court of Appeals upheld the enforceability of “click-wrap” agreements and also held that issues of the scope of an arbitration agreement ...