Legal Opinion
Rivera v. American General Financial Services, Inc.
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided July 27, 2011No. 32,340PublishedCited by 101 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DANIELS, Chief Justice.
{1} We granted certiorari in this case to review a Court of Appeals opinion upholding a district court’s order compelling arbitration of Petitioner Kim Rivera’s claims against a title loan lender, American General Financial Services, Inc., and its affiliated insurance agency, American Security Insurance Company. We base our reversal of those decisions on our holding that the arbitration provisions in the title loan contract cannot be enforced because the involvement of the now-unavailable National Arbitration Forum (NAF) to arbitrate contract disputes was an…
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