California Court of Appeal

In a suit by a provider of commercial janitorial services against the third-party administrator for its workers' compensation insurance claims, a petition for writ of mandate seeking to vacate the trial court's order compelling arbitration is granted, where: 1) none of the plaintiffs' agreements with their administrator contained an arbitration clause; and 2) the trial court erred in compelling arbitration under the doctrine of equitable estoppel, because the plaintiffs' claims against the administrator were not founded in, or inextricably intertwined with, the deductible agreement with the insurer, which contained the arbitration clause.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/15/2012
• Published 05/15/2012

Judges

• Perluss

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Roxborough, Pomerance, Nye & Adreani, Locke Lord LLP