Amtower v. William C Roney & Co.

Young, Jr., J.

This case involves claims arising out of infelicitous securities investments in which defendant advised plaintiffs to participate. As a part of these investment transactions, plaintiffs executed customer agreements providing that any claims against defendant arising from the investments must be submitted to binding arbitration within one year of the accrual of the cause of action.

Plaintiffs sued and defendant moved to dismiss plaintiffs’ claims on the basis that plaintiffs had agreed to arbitrate any such disputes and that, under the arbitration provisions, plaintiffs’ claims…