Panel Says Son Agreed To Arbitrate Individual Claims In Care Home Negligence Suit

(October 27, 2023, 1:20 PM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — A California appellate court affirmed in part a lower court order denying a nursing home’s motion to compel arbitration in a reckless neglect suit against it regarding the death of a former resident but reversed the denial of a motion to compel arbitration of individual claims filed by a son who signed the arbitration agreement, finding that though the son lacked authority to sign on his father’s behalf, by signing in his individual capacity the son agreed to arbitrate “certain nonrepresentative claims.”...