On October 28, the Supreme Court granted a cert petition in a case in which the Kentucky Supreme Court refused to enforce arbitration agreements in nursing home agreements. (Kentucky recently topped my list of states hostile to arbitration precisely because of the language in the decision that will be reviewed…)
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Executors and Personal Representatives Equally Bound to Arbitrate Wrongful Death Claims
By Liz Kramer on
The Eleventh Circuit has “ironed out a wrinkle” in Alabama’s arbitration jurisprudence that seemed to find executors outside the scope of arbitration contracts signed by the decedent.
In Entrekin v. Internal Medicine Assocs. of Dothan, P.A., ___ F.3d __, 2012 WL 3208641 (11th Cir. Aug. 9, 2012), the district court had denied a nursing home’s…