Arbitration provisions in insurance agreements often come under attack when one of the parties to a dispute invokes a state law anti-arbitration provision to oppose a motion to compel arbitration. In many of these disputes, the court has to determine what state law governs the dispute. In a recent case, a federal magistrate judge recommended that the insurer’s motion to compel arbitration be denied because of a state’s anti-arbitration law but the federal district court disagreed.

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