Federal Court Orders Mobile Home Owners to Arbitrate

JACKSON, Miss. - A federal judge has granted a stay in a lawsuit filed by the owners of a mobile home and ordered them to arbitrate construction defect and mold claims brought against their insurer. Billings v. American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida, et al., No. 1:05cv26WJG-JMR (S.D. Miss.).

Senior Judge Walter J. Gex III of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi ruled on Feb. 21 that the claims brought by David Billings and his family against American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida fall within an extended warranty and are subject to the warranty's mandatory arbitration …