Buraczynski v. Eyring

OPINION

ANDERSON, Chief Justice.

In this consolidated appeal, we are asked to decide whether an agreement between a physician and a patient to submit to arbitration “any existing or thereafter arising controversy” is applicable to a medical malpractice dispute and enforceable under the Tennessee Arbitration Act.

The trial court denied the physician’s motions to compel arbitration in each of two separate medical malpractice actions on the grounds that the agreements were not subject to the arbitration statute, and that the agreements were not enforceable contracts because they lacked…