Mealey's (October 15, 2021, 2:35 PM EDT) -- LEXINGTON, Ky. — A federal judge in Kentucky on Sept. 30 granted a personal care home’s motion to compel arbitration of negligence and other claims in an underlying state court case and denied a guardian’s request to dismiss the facility’s suit for lack of subject matter jurisdiction or to abstain in favor of the state court case. The judge found that the individual defendants in the state court action were not indispensable parties to the federal action and that the guardian’s durable power of attorney authorized her to enter into an arbitration agreement....