Posts Tagged ‘American Arbitration Association’

1400 GM and Chrysler Dealers Request Arbitration

Friday, February 5th, 2010

By: Stephen P. Lagoy

The American Arbitration Association reports that more than 1400 auto dealerships have already applied for arbitration under the government-mandated program for terminated dealerships. AAA will assemble panels to decide the cases over the next 6 months but expects that many cases will settle. For more on the reaction of both dealers and manufacturers, see:

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60P08H20100126

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GM outlines arbitration process for dealer reinstatement arbitration

Friday, January 15th, 2010

By: Stephen P. Lagoy

General Motors is prepared to proceed with a Congressionally-mandated program that will allow 2000 of GM’s closed dealerships to appeal the closure decision through an independent arbitration process. Dealers who want to file for reinstatement must do so through the American Arbitration Association and commence arbitration by Jan. 25. Under the law, decisions must generally be made by June 14. To read more about this arbitration process, see

http://www.detnews.com/20100108 and http://www.detnews.com/20100109

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