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Heard this story on the radio this morning.
Here's the gist, as I understand it. A bunch of homeowners whose homes were built by this Quadrant company found that their homes were apparently shoddily constructed and filled with mold and other toxins, making them pretty much unlivable. Naturally, they wanted to sue the company because of this, except that, you guessed it, there was one of those "you can't sue us" clauses in their contracts.
But here's the kicker. The WA Supreme Court who made the poor decision of saying that the mandatory arbitration clause is valid (and not the load of crap that it actually is) also said that the contract doesn't bind the children of the homeowners and that the children are free to sue the company. So that's a partial victory for the homeowners, at least.
Anyway, yeah, this is indeed a very good example of why these "can't sue us" clauses need to be disallowed. This binding arbitration crap isn't new, but it has been becoming more and more widespread lately, or at least it seems that way to me anyway. It needs to be stopped.
Here's the gist, as I understand it. A bunch of homeowners whose homes were built by this Quadrant company found that their homes were apparently shoddily constructed and filled with mold and other toxins, making them pretty much unlivable. Naturally, they wanted to sue the company because of this, except that, you guessed it, there was one of those "you can't sue us" clauses in their contracts.
But here's the kicker. The WA Supreme Court who made the poor decision of saying that the mandatory arbitration clause is valid (and not the load of crap that it actually is) also said that the contract doesn't bind the children of the homeowners and that the children are free to sue the company. So that's a partial victory for the homeowners, at least.
Anyway, yeah, this is indeed a very good example of why these "can't sue us" clauses need to be disallowed. This binding arbitration crap isn't new, but it has been becoming more and more widespread lately, or at least it seems that way to me anyway. It needs to be stopped.
