After a catastrophic turbine failure at an Algerian power plant, insurers acting as subrogees of the plant’s owner, Shariket Kahraba Hadjret En Nouss (the “Owner”) filed an action in Georgia’s state-wide business court against various General Electric entities that had provided services for the plant under contracts between the GE entities and the plant’s operator,…
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Non-signatory Spouse Not Subject to Mandatory Arbitration
In Lubin v. Starbucks Corp., 2024 WL 5113125 (11th Cir. Dec. 16, 2024), the Eleventh Circuit rejected an employer’s attempt to compel arbitration of claims brought by a former employee’s husband, where he had not signed an agreement with the employer and his claims were not sufficiently related to his wife’s employment agreement. The decision…