United States Ninth Circuit

In a suit over the denial of a life insurance claim for a policy taken out to cover a loan, denial of defendant-insurer's motion to compel arbitration is affirmed where the insurance policy did not contain an arbitration agreement, and the plaintiff's claim in the lawsuit was not sufficiently related to the loan to allow defendant, a non-signatory, to invoke the loan agreement's arbitration clause.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/09/2008
• Decided 02/11/2009
• Published 02/11/2009

Judges

• Before: A. WALLACE TASHIMA, W. FLETCHER, and MARSHA S. BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Shane Reich, Fresno, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee., Kevin A. Rogers, Wells Marble & Hurst, Ridgeland, MS, for the defendant-appellant.