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The Federal Arbitration Act
October 24, 2023 By: Michael A. Stover, Esq. In this issue of the Surety Today Blog, I will discuss the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”), an issue that I touched on last month in the Surety... Read More »
October 24, 2023
A Primer on the Common Interest Privilege or Joint Defense Privilege
October 17, 2023 By: Michael A. Stover, Esq. In this issue of the Surety Today Blog, I will discuss an issue that my partner, Cindy Rodgers-Waire, touched on last month when she hosted the Surety... Read More »
October 17, 2023
A Potential Surety Defense Under the McCarran-Ferguson Act Against An Arbitration Demand
October 10, 2023 By: Michael A. Stover, Esq. In this issue of the Surety Today Blog I will continue on the same theme that we have been on for the past four weeks – the... Read More »
October 10, 2023
What If You Want To Avoid Arbitration?
October 3, 2023 By: Michael A. Stover, Esq. In this Surety Today blog post, we will continue with the theme of the last three blog posts and focus on arbitration. In the first two posts,... Read More »
October 3, 2023
The Surety and Arbitration
September 26, 2023 By: Michael A. Stover, Esq. In this Surety Today blog post we will continue with the theme of the last two blog posts and focus on arbitration. ARBITRATION OVERVIEW Arbitration is a... Read More »
September 26, 2023
Surety Case Law Note: Whether an Arbitration Provision Bound the Surety Under Texas Law
September 19, 2023 By: Michael A. Stover, Esq. In this Surety Today blog post we will provide a Case Law Note to consider the issue of whether an arbitration provision in the underlying contract was... Read More »
September 19, 2023
Surety Case Law Note: When is an Arbitration Provision Unconscionable and Unenforceable Under California Law?
September 12, 2023 By: Michael A. Stover, Esq. In this Surety Today blog post we will provide a Case Law Note to consider the issue of whether an arbitration provision of a contract is unconscionable... Read More »
September 12, 2023
Statutes of Repose (Part Two)
September 5, 2023 By: Michael A. Stover, Esq. In the last Surety Today Blog post, we discussed Statutes of Repose. We explored what they are, their history, the differences between statutes of limitation and Statutes... Read More »
September 5, 2023
Statutes of Repose
August 29, 2023 By: Michael A. Stover, Esq. In this Surety Today Blog post we will discuss Statutes of Repose. We will explore what they are, their history, and the differences between statutes of limitation... Read More »
August 29, 2023
The Common Obligee Theory (Part Two)
August 22, 2023 By: Michael A. Stover, Esq. In this Surety Today Blog post we provide part two in our two-part series on the Common Obligee Theory. In the first post, we discussed what the... Read More »
August 22, 2023
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