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Arbitration Grows As Trial Alternatives
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TWO area arbitration organizations said they expected more calls for their services in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling that an arbitration agreement signed by Eugene and Julia McMahon of Yonkers with Shearson-American Express and one of its vice presidents, Mary Ann McNulty of Scarsdale, was binding. TWO area arbitration organizations said they expected more calls for their services in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling that an arbitration agreement signed by Eugene and Julia McMahon of Yonkers with Shearson-American Express and one of its vice presidents, Mary Ann McNulty of Scarsdale, was binding. In their suit, the McMahons, co-owners of a Yonkers funeral parlor, were seeking through a court trial to recover investment losses they attributed to mismanagement by the defendants. The Court said that an agreement between a brokerage firm and its customers to arbitrate all disputes applied even when violations of Federal law were alleged. The two county arbitration organizations assessing the decision are the American Arbitration Association, based in Manhattan, and Arbitration Forums of Tarrytown. ‘’The impact of the ruling is to strongly support arbitration as a fair and effective method to resolve disputes,'’ said Marion J. Zinman, vice president of the American Arbitration Association and director of its regional office in White Plains. ‘’We think it will encourage wider use of commercial arbitration as an alternative to going to court.'’ The ruling applies to a broad range of commerial arbitration cases. The American Arbitration Association, a private nonprofit organization, has been providing a full range of voluntary dispute-resolution services such as arbitration and mediation for 60 years. It has 32 regional offices and 60,000 arbitrators and mediators nationwide. Last year, 47,000 cases, involving $700 million in claims and counterclaims, were filed with the association, according to Mrs. Zinman, who is 45 years old and has directed the association’s White Plains regional since 1979. ‘’When I joined the association, there were only a handful of groups offering arbitration services and the size of the claims were small,'’ she recalled. ‘’Now there are 400 groups that provide arbitration services - which reflects the trend toward an alternative to litigation. Court costs are soaring and cases can be backlogged for years.'’ More : query.nytimes.com |
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