Gaffer Insurance v. Discover Reinsurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that whether, under the terms of the parties’ agreement, the “parties are required to submit their dispute to arbitration – is strictly one of contract interpretation”
• “[A] preferred contract interpretation ascribes under all circumstances the most reasonable, probable, and natural conduct to the parties.”
• “[A] preferred contract interpretation ascribes under all circumstances the most reasonable, probable, and natural conduct to the parties.”
• “[t]he contract must be interpreted as a whole, and an interpretation that gives effect to all of the contract’s provisions is preferred.”
• contract language that one of the parties “will submit to the jurisdiction” of particular courts is consistent with agreement to arbitrate and is properly construed as providing a judicial forum for compelling and enforcing arbitration
• “[R]egardless of whether the contract is governed by federal or state arbitration law, we apply general -9- TM CONSTRUCTION, INC. V. MARCO CONTRACTORS, INC. Opinion of the Court principles of Pennsylvania contract law to interpret the parties' agreement.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).