Unionmutual Stock Life Insurance Company of America v. Beneficial Life Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• stating court must not remove substantive challenges to a contract from the arbitrators = consideration regardless of the basis for the challenge unless there is an independent challenge to the arbitration clause itself
• “[T]he fact that [the] attempt to rescind the entire agreement is based on the grounds of frustration of purpose rather than on fraud in the inducement does not change applicability of the severability doctrine.”
• “The essential factor is that the parties agreed to arbitrate in a particular forum and thus may be expected to have consented to the jurisdiction of that forum’s courts in a request for an order compelling arbitration.”
• applying federal presumption in favor of arbitration
• frustration of purpose and mutual mistake

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