Bailey v. Metropolitan Property & Liability Insurance

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a plaintiff had a fair opportunity to litigate his claim when he initiated a commercial arbitration in which a lawyer served as the arbitrator and in which the rules of the American Arbitration Association governed the proceedings
• “Although apparently no judgment was entered in the Superior Court confirming the award . . . this is due to [the insurance company’s] prompt payment”
• “When arbitration affords opportunity for presentation of evidence and argument substantially similar in form and scope to judicial proceedings, the award should have the same [preclusive] effect. . . .”
• “An arbitration decision can have preclusive effect. . . . ”
• \An arbitration decision can have preclusive effect....\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).