California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Elijahjuan v. Superior Court of L.A. Cnty., 147 Cal.Rptr.3d 857, 210 Cal.App.4th 15 (Cal. App. 2013):
Broad arbitration clauses such as this one are consistently interpreted as applying to extra-contractual disputes between the contracting parties. ( Coast Plaza Doctors Hospital v. Blue Cross of California (2000) 83 Cal.App.4th 677, 681, fn. 2, 686, 99 Cal.Rptr.2d 809 [where parties agreed to arbitrate [a]ny problem or dispute arising under this Agreement and/or concerning the terms of this Agreement (italics omitted), the arbitration agreement was broad enough to encompass tort claims];
[210 Cal.App.4th 28]
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