High Court Won’t Review Enforceability Of Arbitration Clause In Admissions Agreement

Mealey's (January 8, 2018, 11:21 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 8 declined to grant the certiorari petition of a hospital seeking reversal of a Florida court’s decision that an arbitration provision in a patient’s admissions agreement was unenforceable in light of the high court’s recent ruling in Kindred Nursing Ctrs. Ltd. P'Ship v. Clark, 137 S. Ct. 1421, 1426-27 (2017) (Kindred Hospitals East LLC, dba Kindred Hospital OCALA v. Estate of Marianne Klemish, et al., No. 17-365)....