August 31, 2004
Global Travel Marketing, Inc. v. Mark P. Shea
Case Number(s):
SC03-1704

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Summary:

During an African safari with his mother, an 11-year-old child was killed by hyenas. The father sued the travel company on behalf of the child's estate. The trial court granted a motion to compel arbitration of the claim pursuant to a provision of the travel contract. The Fourth District reversed and certified this question of great public importance: Whether a parent's agreement in a commercial travel contract to binding arbitration on behalf of a minor child with respect to prospective tort claims arising in the course of such travel is enforceable as to the minor.