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- Title
LOCALE -- INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT -- 49 U.S.C. §20(11).
- Abstract
The article focuses on the decision given by a U.S. court in the lawsuit Aaacon Auto Transport, Inc. V. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., in the year 1976. The court held that a provision in an arbitration clause contained in an interstate carrier's standard form bill of lading which required private shippers to arbitrate all their claims in New York was held to be invalid as a limitation on the liability of the carrier and hence prohibited by Section 20(II) of the Interstate Commerce Act. The court held, that the carrier's exposure to the possibility of having to defend against a claim on the merits in a state other than New York is a liability encompassed by the all inclusive statutory prohibition against any limitation of liability.
- Subjects
LEGAL judgments; ARBITRATION &; award; AAACON Auto Transport Inc.; STATE Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.; LEGAL liability; LEGAL claims
- Publication
Arbitration Journal, 1976, Vol 31, Issue 3, p214
- ISSN
0003-7893
- Publication type
Article