Wife’s Power-Of-Attorney Doesn’t Let Rehab Facility Force Arbitration, Panel Says

Mealey's (May 21, 2021, 1:17 PM EDT) -- TUCSON, Ariz. — A health care power-of-attorney provision authorized an agent to take “limited action” rather than to exercise “wholesale authority to take any legal action in relation to [the grantor’s] healthcare,” an Arizona appellate court ruled May 18 in a wrongful death case, affirming the trial court’s denial of a motion to compel arbitration for reasons including that the contested arbitration agreement was not required for admission to the rehabilitation facility that sought to enforce it....