Allegation that Companies Breach Promises to Pay Consumers' Arbitration Fees

Arbitration Fees: Do Companies Breach Duty to Pay Them?

Via Art Hinshaw at ADR Prof, and Jean Sternlight of UNLV writes that Public Justice's Paul Bland (here) argues that although many companies promise to pay arbitration fees incurred by their customers and employees, "quite a few fail to pay those fees on the rare occasion when someone actually brings a claim against them in arbitration.  The post further discusses how the AAA has begun to send letters to such companies demanding that they stop using the AAA name in company documents. Bland identifies car dealers as a common culprit,"