Bared and Co. v. Specialty Maintenance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that filing an answer to a cross-claim without demanding arbitration was a waiver of the contractual right to arbitration
• holding that a showing of prejudice is not required when the waiver is based on a party's acts that are inconsistent with its contractual rights
• waiver where the defendant filed an answer and a cross-claim without raising the arbitration issue
• “It was not the substance of the initial answer that resulted in the waiver but the fact that SMIC and National Fire answered rather than demanding arbitration.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).