Romney v. Franciscan Medical Group

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Trickey, J.

Washington has a strong public policy favoring arbitration. Because of that clear policy, an employer-employee arbitration agreement will be upheld even if certain provisions of the agreement are substantively unconscionable so long as those provisions are severable.

¶2 The arbitration agreement allows plaintiff-employees to seek damages claimed as well as any attorney fees and costs “as required by law.” The arbitration agreement at issue here is neither procedurally nor substantively unconscionable.

¶3 The employees’ assertion that the agreement is substantively unconscionable…