Michigan Compiled Laws
Mich. Comp. Laws § 691.1689 (2026)
Initiation of arbitration.
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UNIFORM ARBITRATION ACT
Act 371 of 2012
691.1689 Initiation of arbitration.
Sec. 9.
(1) A person initiates an arbitration proceeding by giving notice in a record to the other parties to the agreement to arbitrate in the agreed manner between the parties or, in the absence of agreement, by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested and obtained, or by service as authorized for the commencement of a civil action. The notice must describe the nature of the controversy and the remedy sought.
(2) Unless a person objects for lack or insufficiency of notice under section 15(3) not later than the beginning of the arbitration hearing, the person by appearing at the hearing waives any objection to lack of or insufficiency of notice.
History: 2012, Act 371, Eff. July 1, 2013
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases (3 in the last 5 years), 2022–2023 · leading case: Dom. Unif. Rental v. A2 Auto Ctr. (Mich. Ct. App. 2022).
Dom. Unif. Rental v. A2 Auto Ctr. (Mich. Ct. App. 2022). “Under the UAA, an arbitration award shall be vacated, on motion, if “[t]he arbitration was conducted without proper notice of the initiation of an arbitration as required in [MCL 691.1689] so as to prejudice substantially the rights of a party to the arbitration proceeding.”
Dom. Unif. Rental v. A2 Auto Ctr. (Mich. Ct. App. 2022). “Under the UAA, an arbitration award shall be vacated, on motion, if “[t]he arbitration was conducted without proper notice of the initiation of an arbitration as required in [MCL 691.1689] so as to prejudice substantially the rights of a party to the arbitration proceeding.”
20230202_C357990_51_357990.Opn.Pdf (Mich. Ct. App. 2023). “-5- (f) The arbitration was conducted without proper notice of the initiation of an arbitration as required in [MCL 691.1689] so as to prejudice substantially the rights of a party to the arbitration proceeding.”
— Mich. Comp. Laws § 691.1689(1) — 2 cases
Dom. Unif. Rental v. A2 Auto Ctr. (Mich. Ct. App. 2022). “Under the UAA, an arbitration award shall be vacated, on motion, if “[t]he arbitration was conducted without proper notice of the initiation of an arbitration as required in [MCL 691.1689] so as to prejudice substantially the rights of a party to the arbitration proceeding.”
Dom. Unif. Rental v. A2 Auto Ctr. (Mich. Ct. App. 2022). “Under the UAA, an arbitration award shall be vacated, on motion, if “[t]he arbitration was conducted without proper notice of the initiation of an arbitration as required in [MCL 691.1689] so as to prejudice substantially the rights of a party to the arbitration proceeding.”
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