Legal Opinion
Menna v. Plymouth Rock Assurance Corp.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided January 21, 2010No. 07-CV-1308PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GLICKMAN, Associate Judge:
Mark Menna appeals the trial court’s denial of his motion to compel Plymouth Rock Assurance Corporation (“Plymouth Rock”) to participate in arbitration. Although Menna and Plymouth Rock were signatories to an arbitration agreement, the court was persuaded by Plymouth Rock’s claims that it had withdrawn from the agreement, and that Menna was barred by the statute of limitations, laches, and his own waiver from enforcing his contractual rights. Plymouth Rock’s purported withdrawal did not render its arbitration agreement with Menna a nullity, however. There is no doubt…
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