Travelers Gets Insurance Worker Wage Claims Sent to Arbitration

Travelers Indemnity Co. convinced a federal judge that an arbitrator should decide if a former employee’s claims for alleged violations of California wage-and-hour law belong in arbitration.

The arbitration policy “clearly and unambiguously delegates threshold questions of arbitrability” to an arbitrator, not a judge, the US District Court for the Central District of California said. The worker failed to show that the delegation provision of the insurance company’s arbitration policy is “both procedurally and substantively unconscionable, as is required” to negate it, the Tuesday order said.

• Plaintiff Daniel Castellanos filed a proposed class action alleging Travelers ran afoul of ...