Every time I think the spate of state supreme court opinions about nursing home arbitration surely must be over, another one comes out to prove me wrong. Last week, it was one from Alabama, finding an arbitration agreement was never formed, because the resident lacked capacity and the daughter who signed on his behalf
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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…