The Florida Senate

684.12  Consolidation of arbitrations.--

(1)  If two or more disputes have common questions of law or fact or arise out of a single transaction or enterprise and if at least one of those disputes is to be arbitrated under this chapter, the disputes may be consolidated and determined by one arbitral tribunal if consolidation is not prohibited by the arbitral law or the rules otherwise applicable to the separate disputes and:

(a)  All affected parties agree to the consolidation; or

(b)  All of the disputes are to be submitted to the same tribunal, and the tribunal determines that consolidation will serve the interests of justice and the expeditious resolution of the disputes.

(2)  The consolidated proceedings shall be conducted under such rules as the parties agree upon or, in the absence of agreement, as determined by the arbitral tribunal.

History.--s. 1, ch. 86-266.