South Carolina Panel: Alligator Death Claims Do Not Have To Be Arbitrated

(July 30, 2020, 2:28 PM EDT) -- COLUMBIA, S.C. — Equitable estoppel does not bind a woman to an arbitration provision in the residency agreement her grandmother signed with a nursing home, a South Carolina Court of Appeals panel found July 29, affirming a trial court's denial of the facility defendants' motion to compel arbitration of negligence claims related to the grandmother's death after wandering from the facility and being killed by an alligator in a pond on the grounds (Stephanie Walker Weaver v. Brookdale Senior Living, Inc., et al., No. 2017-002241, S.C. App., 2020 S.C. App. LEXIS 74)....

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