South Carolina Panel Affirms: No Arbitration In Wrongful Death Case

(May 6, 2019, 10:07 AM EDT) -- COLUMBIA, S.C. — A trial court’s denial of a nursing home’s motion to compel arbitration on allegations that it overmedicated and dehydrated an elderly resident was upheld May 1 by the South Carolina Court of Appeals, which found that a plaintiff who signed the arbitration agreement lacked an effective power of attorney at the time (Hilda Stott v. White Oak Manor Inc., No. 2016-001732, S.C. App., 2019 S.C. App. LEXIS 38)....

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