Arbitration Agreements, Consumer Goods

Arbitration agreements have become a commonplace occurrence in everyday American life. There are arbitration agreements and no most every agreement you sign. When you buy a car there’s an arbitration agreement when you buy an oven there is an arbitration agreement when you buy a vacuum there’s an arbitration agreement.

There has been attempt at the federal level to remove these arbitration agreements from consumer agreements, however to date that effort has been unsuccessful. What this means for the average customer is that you need to read your paperwork when you buy these consumer goods. You need to potentially cross out refused to agree to these arbitration agreements one before you take the product place in your car and go home.

It is imperative that you ask questions whether or not there’s an arbitration agreement and you must read all of your documentation to see if there’s an arbitration agreement. Because, ultimately if you do have a dispute you want to sue the manufacturer, you want to sue the store you’re going to be barred from suing them in Superior Court.

Even if you do have an arbitration agreement there are still ways to receive compensation against the seller the manufacturer or the distributor of the goods. However it is somewhat more complicated and there are fewer lawyers that handle these types of claims.

Many times the process of filing arbitration favors the consumers because the business, pursuant to their own arbitration agreement, is required to pay all the upfront fees. Free point the upfront fees can be in excess of the damages claimed by the claimant.