Legal Opinion
Kernahan v. Home Warranty Adm'r of Fla., Inc.
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided January 10, 2019No. A-15 September Term 2017; 079680PublishedCited by 78 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice LaVECCHIA
**307In this appeal, we address whether parties to a consumer contract intended to create an agreement to arbitrate through the insertion of language within an alternative dispute resolution provision. See Atalese v. U.S. Legal Servs. Grp., L.P., 219 N.J. 430, 435, 99 A.3d 306 (2014) (observing that inclusion of arbitration provisions in consumer contracts is now "commonplace").
Both the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), 9 U.S.C. §§ 1 to 16, and the New Jersey Arbitration Act, N.J.S.A. 2A:23B-1 to -32, value the benefits from arbitration of disputes and encourage enforcement of arbitration…
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