ALTOBELLI v. HARTMANN

Docket No. 150656.

884 N.W.2d 537 (2016)

499 Mich. 284

ALTOBELLI v. HARTMANN.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided June 13, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Granzotto, PC, Royal Oak (by Mark Granzotto ), and Dean Altobelli for plaintiff.

Kienbaum Opperwall Hardy & Pelton, PLC (by Thomas G. Krenbaum and Noel D. Massie , Birmingham), and Smith Haughey Rice & Roegge, Grand Rapids (by John R. Oostema and E. Thomas McCarthy, Jr. ) for defendants.


This case requires the Court to address whether plaintiff's tort claims against individual principals of a law firm fall within the scope of an arbitration clause that mandates arbitration for any dispute between the firm and a former principal. Generally speaking, a company may only act through its agents. In this case, plaintiff...

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