Sentences with phrase «standard arbitration clauses»

The article explains how companies can maximize the benefits of arbitration by periodically updating and tailoring their standard arbitration clauses.

MoFo recommends California companies reconsider using a standard arbitration clause in their contracts with consumers, due to a recent state supreme court decision.

Not exact matches

In addition to the standards of practice, an inspection contract must reflect that state's position on things like arbitration, limit of liability and other defensive clauses found in most inspection contracts.

In its template agreement filed with the CFPB as of March 31, American Express» Gold Card now has, instead of a standard pre-dispute arbitration clause, an expanded «Claims Resolution» section.

The new tool provides parties with the AAA's standard arbitration agreement, in addition to an array of options parties may consider when drafting ADR clauses, including specifying the number of arbitrators; arbitrator qualifications; locale -LSB-...]

In Fiona Trust v Privalov [2007] EWCA Civ 20, [2007] All ER (D) 169 (Jan) the issue was whether or not a claim for rescission of eight standard form charterparties on the grounds of alleged bribery was outside the terms of an arbitration clause.

It is worth noting that binding arbitration clauses in standard form contracts (like between websites and their many users) are not legal in many jurisdictions (e.g. Australia) but are legal in others (e.g. USA).

Many standard clauses automatically exclude certain matters, such as intellectual property claims, from mediation or arbitration.

In an effort to avoid the flood of consumer and employee class actions in the United States, businesses have increasingly turned to arbitration and class action waiver clauses in their standard form contracts.

Many of these recent agreements include dispute resolution provisions which continue to provide for «ad hoc» arbitration, albeit with clauses which are more sophisticated than the standard short form articles found in the bulk of the BITs negotiated in the global surge in the mid-1990s.

Enact federal laws prohibiting yield - spread premiums to mortgage brokers, loan flipping, mandatory arbitration clauses, balloon loans, and steep prepayment penalties, and laws setting minimal underwriting standards, establishing uniform mortgage broker licensing requirements, and a national database of disciplinary actions.