Judge Finds Estate Is Bound By Nursing Home’s Arbitration Provision

Mealey's (April 4, 2018, 1:44 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — After finding that a nursing home’s arbitration agreement was valid and not unconscionable and that a wrongful death claim asserted by the estate of a woman who died in the nursing home was derivative of the decedent’s cause of action, a Massachusetts federal judge on March 31 ordered that all of the estate’s claims be compelled to arbitration (GGNSC Chestnut Hill LLC, ex rel. v. Jackalyn M. Schrader, ex rel., No. 16-10525, D. Mass., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 55189)....