Jennifer Akridge v. Alfa Mutual Insurance Company

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• holding that the plaintiffs claim of fraud in the inducement was not limited to the arbitration agreement, and thus his claim was arbitrable under Prima Paint
• under the FAA, the party resisting arbitration has a heavy burden of showing that he is entitled to a jury trial
• \We must determine whether Bhatia's complaint is directed at the entire contract or only the arbitration clause.\
• “[T]he party resisting arbitration... has the burden of showing that he is entitled to a jury trial under § 4 of the Arbitration Act.”
• must be asserted that `arbitration clause alone, as opposed to the Customer Agreement generally,' had been induced *Page 1124 by fraud
• \We must determine whether Bhatia's complaint is directed at the entire contract or only the arbitration clause.\

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