Picerne Construction Corp. v. Castellino Villas

How courts have described this case

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• noting that California courts have consistently found the FAA to be reverse-preempted by the MeCarran-Ferguson Act with respect to arbitration agreements in health care service plans governed by a California statute requiring disclosures of arbitration agreements in health care plans
• compelling arbitration where “a review of the record reveal{ed] that [plaintiffs] did not specifically direct any challenge to the delegation □ clauses empowering the arbitrators to determine gateway questions of arbitrability’
• applying Buckeye’s reasoning to a dispute over who ought to decide the validity of an arbitration clause contained in an unfiled California insurance agreement and concluding that the question belonged to the arbitrators.
• \ '[D]elegation clauses' are enforceable where 'there is clear and unmistakable evidence that the parties intended to arbitrate arbitrability issues.' \
• ‘[DJelegation clauses . . . are severable from larger arbitration provisions.”

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