Pennsylvania Life Insurance Co. v. Simoni

TERNUS, Justice.

This interlocutory appeal concerns the enforceability of a contractual provision to arbitrate certain disputes between the contracting parties, appellant, Pennsylvania Life Insurance Company [hereinafter “Penn Life”], and two of its former agents, appellees, Jeffrey Simoni and Timothy Winders. The district court refused to require arbitration of counterclaims filed by the agents on the basis that it would be more convenient to try the counterclaims at the same time and in the same forum as the company’s claims, which were not subject to the arbitration provision. On this…