Nursing Home Owner Maintains Nonsignatories Not Bound By Forum-Selection Clause

Mealey's (February 27, 2019, 2:14 PM EST) -- RICHMOND, Va. — The owner of a nursing home accused of breaching contracts it had with patients to provide care and comply with state law requirements says in a Feb. 13 brief filed in the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that a federal judge in North Carolina erred in remanding the lawsuit because plaintiffs failed to establish that four nonsignatory defendants were alter egos and subject to a forum-selection clause in the residents’ contracts (Joseph J. Pfohl, et al. v. Saber Healthcare Group LLC, et al., No. 18-2335, 4th Cir.)....