Cynthia Huffman v. The Hilltop Companies

OPINION

McREAGUE, Circuit Judge.

This case involves multiple individuals who were once employed by The Hilltop Companies. Each individual executed an employment agreement with Hilltop that contained both an arbitration clause and a survival clause, but the survival clause did not list the arbitration clause. At the heart of this dispute is whether the strong presumption in favor of arbitration controls, or whether the omission of the arbitration clause from the survival clause in the agreement constitutes a “clear implication” that the parties intended the arbitration clause to expire with the…