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Employer's unilateral right to modify employee handbook invalidates employee dispute arbitration agreement

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 19 2009

A Texas Court of Appeals recently held that an employer's arbitration policy was unenforceable because the policy was conditioned upon an illusory promise

Nonprofit membership certificate is not a stock certificate

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 25 2009

An arbitrator recently ended a controversy involving the $311 million sale of Community First Foundation's membership interest in nonprofit Exempla Healthcare System's hospitals to the other member of Exempla, the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System

Nebraska Supreme Court grants relief from arbitration to orphan who signed arbitration agreement for his mother

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 29 2009

The Nebraska Supreme Court, in a recent decision, held that a child's signature, as the representative of his mother, on an arbitration agreement was not binding upon his mother's estate

Court holds federal law preempts nursing home's arbitration provision

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 11 2010

A healthcare provider's arbitration agreement that lacked Texas notice provisions was held to be invalid under the McCarran-Ferguson Act (15 U.S.C. 1012(b)) which prohibits federal laws from preempting state insurance laws