Supreme Court of California

Denial of a motion to stay litigation and compel arbitration is reversed where an arbitration agreement, signed when a chiropractor first treated patient, applied to a medical malpractice claim arising from treatment for a different condition two years later because the agreement stated it was "intended to bind the patient and health care provider...who now or in the future treat[s] the patient."

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/08/2007
• Published 02/08/2007

Judges

• CORRIGAN, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Law Offices of Rick A. Cigel, Rick A. Cigel, Los Angeles;  Law Offices of Richard G. Reinjohn, Richard G. Reinjohn, Los Angeles;  and Michael J. Schroeder, Santa Ana, for Defendant and Appellant., Zuetel & Torigian and Kenneth R. Zuetel, Jr., Pasadena, for Cigna Healthcare of California, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant., Horvitz & Levy, S. Thomas Todd and Bradley S. Pauley, Encino, for California Medical Association, California Dental Association and California Hospital Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant., Rich, Fuidge, Morris & Iverson and Roland K. Iverson, Jr., Marysville, for Plaintiffs and Respondents.