In a case brought by a former executive of East Orange General Hospital involving an arbitration agreement that only one side signed, a New Jersey appeals court has ruled that a judge shouldn’t have rejected a request to arbitrate without holding oral argument or giving a statement of reasons.
A three-judge Appellate Division panel in the whistleblower case said a trial judge erred in denying the defendants’ motion to compel arbitration before holding oral argument based solely on the fact that the agreement was missing the employer’s signature.
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