Illinois Panel:  Care Home Arbitration Agreement Ended Upon Former Resident’s Death

(July 20, 2022, 1:48 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — An Illinois appellate court on July 18 affirmed a trial court order denying a nursing home’s motion to compel arbitration in a negligence and wrongful death suit filed against it by the daughter of a woman who died there, finding that though the nursing home did not waive its right to arbitrate by participating in litigation, the “agreement was no longer enforceable” due to “the contract’s explicit language that it terminated upon decedent’s death.”...

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