Nursing Home, Entities To 1st Circuit: Beneficiary Bound By Decedent’s Agreement

Mealey's (January 17, 2019, 1:58 PM EST) -- BOSTON — A nursing home and its entities argue to the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a Jan. 2 brief that a wrongful death beneficiary’s right of recovery is derivative of a decedent’s claim in that the nonsignatory beneficiary is bound to the decedent’s arbitration agreement (GGNSC Administrative Services LLC, et al. v. Jackalyn M. Schrader, No. 18-1779, 1st Cir.)....