Hanover Insurance Company v. Bay Meadows Consulting LLC

In this interlocutory appeal, we must determine whether the district court properly denied Bay Meadows Consulting (Bay Meadows), Marilourdes Deyo, and Laurence and Christin Lampheres’ motions to compel arbitration. For the reasons that follow, we vacate and remand.

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In 2010, the University of Alabama North Bluff Residential Community Project hired Brice Building Company (Brice) as the general contractor for development of a student housing complex. In March 2011, Brice subcontracted with Atlantis Drywall and Framing (Atlantis) for work on the North Bluff project. The subcontract contained an…