Landmark Nursing Home Arbitration Award May Cause Facilities To Re-Evaluate Patient Care
One of the trends in nursing home litigation has been the inclusion of mandatory arbitration agreements in admission paperwork. By signing an arbitration agreement (usually unknowingly), nursing home patients may surrender their opportunity to recover money for an injury via a traditional jury trial. Alternatively, injured parties must present their grievances before an individual or group of arbitrators. The arbitration agreements set forth the terms of the arbitration and how many arbitrators will hear the matter. Generally, in the case of a single arbitrator, the individual is selected by the nursing home. In the case of an arbitration...
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