Tennessee Panel Orders Nursing Home To Pay Costs Of Arbitration In Liability Action

(September 17, 2020, 9:42 AM EDT) -- JACKSON, Tenn. — Although agreeing with a trial court that a fee-splitting provision in an arbitration agreement between a nursing home and a former resident is unconscionable, a Tennessee Court of Appeals panel on Sept. 15 reversed the lower court's decision to deny the facility's motion to compel arbitration and ordered the trial court on remand to compel arbitration at the facility's expense (Tkach Stokes v. Allenbrooke Nursing and Rehabilitation Center LLC, No. W2019-01983-COA-R3-CV, Tenn. App., 2020 Tenn. App. LEXIS 411)....

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