Pennsylvania Judge Holds Nursing Home’s Arbitration Clause Is Unconscionable

(August 10, 2018, 4:06 PM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — After finding that the evidence showed that a Medicare recipient’s son felt forced into signing a nursing home admissions agreement that provided for arbitration and that the agreement was procedurally and substantively unconscionable, a Pennsylvania judge on Aug. 1 ruled on remand  that he was not bound to arbitrate his survival claim against the facility (Roy J. Burkett Jr. v. St. Francis Country House, et al., No. 02585, Pa. Comm. Pls., Philadelphia Comm. Pleas, 1st Dist.)....

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