435.014. Arbitrators, may not be subpoenaed--proceedings regarded as settlement negotiations, communications confidential. - Missouri Statutes

Arbitrators, may not be subpoenaed--proceedings regarded as settlementnegotiations, communications confidential.

435.014. 1. If all the parties to a dispute agree inwriting to submit their dispute to any forum for arbitration,conciliation or mediation, then no person who serves asarbitrator, conciliator or mediator, nor any agent or employee ofthat person, shall be subpoenaed or otherwise compelled todisclose any matter disclosed in the process of setting up orconducting the arbitration, conciliation or mediation.

2. Arbitration, conciliation and mediation proceedings shallbe regarded as settlement negotiations. Any communicationrelating to the subject matter of such disputes made during theresolution process by any participant, mediator, conciliator,arbitrator or any other person present at the dispute resolutionshall be a confidential communication. No admission,representation, statement or other confidential communicationmade in setting up or conducting such proceedings not otherwisediscoverable or obtainable shall be admissible as evidence orsubject to discovery.

(L. 1986 H.B. 887 § 2)