Americo Life, Inc. v. Myer

in which Chief Justice HECHT, Justice GREEN, Justice GUZMAN and Justice DEVINE joined.

This is an arbitration case. The petitioners contend the court of appeals erroneously imposed a requirement for the selection of arbitrators beyond those the parties agreed upon in their arbitration agreement. For the reasons explained below, we reverse.

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In 1998, Robert Myer and Strider Marketing Group, Inc. (collectively Myer) sold a collection of insurance companies to the petitioners (collectively Americo). The parties agreed on an up-front payment to Myer for the businesses and executed a “trailer…