Arbitration Agreement Signed By Husband On Behalf Of His Wife Is Not Binding

(March 12, 2018, 12:20 PM EDT) -- COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Court of Appeals on March 7 affirmed a trial court’s ruling that a rehabilitation facility’s arbitration agreement, signed by a patient’s husband, is not binding because the patient was not incompetent at the time of admission and the husband did not possess a health care power of attorney on behalf of his wife (Camille Hodge, Jr., as personal representative of the estate of Mable Hodge, v. UniHealth Post-Acute Care of Bamberg, LLC, et al., No. 5541, S.C. App., 2018 S.C. App. LEXIS 13)....

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