Court Opinion

ID: 9655532
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 19:13:49.371614+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:13:19.521798
License: Public Domain

COMBS, Chief Judge,
Concurring:
It is my profound wish that the General Assembly would re-visit the issue of arbitration in Kentucky. I hope that it would defer to the common law, common sense notion that fraud in the inducement to enter into a contract should not be tolerated — much less rewarded — in allowing the fraudulent actor to escape the scrutiny of the courts by recourse to arbitration. Until the General Assembly decrees otherwise, arbitration has effectively usurped and supplanted the constitutional guarantee of access to the courts under grossly unfair circumstances.
In light of Peterbüt, I must concur with the correctly reasoned majority opinion. I do so, however, with deep regret tempered with the hope that this lamentable state of affairs may attract the attention of our legislature.