Most folks don’t review their health and life insurance policies until they need to. The same holds true of the dispute resolution provisions of the statewide sale agreement. As long as there is no intractable dispute, it’s likely this section of the Sale Agreement is never reviewed. Continue reading “Residential Real Estate Dispute Resolution in Oregon”
In a November 25, 2014 article by Adam D. Maarec of Davis Wright Tremaine, my old alma mater, posted here, he notes that attorneys general from sixteen states signed a letter to the ubiquitous, omniscient, and otherwise ever-vigilant, Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, aka the “CFPB” – or as they like to refer to themselves, using the Hoover-esque nom de plume, “the Bureau,” urging that it adopt rules imposing “prohibitions, conditions, or limitations on the use of pre-dispute arbitration clauses in consumer agreements for financial products or services.” Continue reading “Querin Law: State AGs Ask CFPB To Limit Arbitrations”
