Case: Discrimination/Arbitration (D.N.H.)

A black worker who was affiliated with New York Life Insurance Company in a variety of capacities over more than a decade doesn’t have to arbitrate his discrimination claims arising from his employment as a “district agent” in 2013, even though he signed an employment agreement with a arbitration provision and a survival clause when he worked in the capacity of a “partner” in 2004. The district agent contract doesn’t contain an arbitration clause, his current claims are not tethered to, or related in any way to, the 2004 partner’s agreement or the relationship established by that agreement, and no ...