... A review of this court's decisions addressing the interplay of statutes authorizing dispute resolution
through grievance and mediation procedures and statutes providing for dispute resolution by civil
service commissions is instructive in the disposition of this appeal. ...
... are not one of those instances. Arbitration is valued as an alternative dispute
resolution mechanism because it provides a speedy and efficient remedy. See
generally Wesley Ret. Servs., Inc. v. Hansen Lind Meyer, Inc., 594 ...
... First, Travelers argues that the language of the insurance contract signed by Franzen incorporated
the entirety of the NCCI Basic Manual's policies and procedures into the contract, and the dispute
resolution section of the Manual requires exhaustion of NCCI's offered ...