Caro v. Smith

Opinion

CROSBY, J.

saying, are not worth the paper they are written on. Defendant’s lawyers would give the same short shrift to a stipulation signed by one of them to submit a personal injury claim to binding arbitration. They call the stipulation worthless because their client did not personally sign it. They say plaintiff’s counsel acted at his peril in taking them at their word concerning their authority to stipulate on their client’s behalf.

Defendant did not sign the stipulation. But she participated in the arbitration, expressly acknowledging to the arbitrator her understanding that it…