Judge Tosses Care Home Request To Compel Arbitration, Says Signer Lacked Authority

Mealey's (September 13, 2022, 10:37 AM EDT) -- TOLEDO, Ohio — An Ohio federal judge on Sept. 8 denied a nursing home’s motion to compel arbitration and stay proceedings in a negligence and wrongful death suit filed by the daughter of a woman who died allegedly from the nursing home’s failure to adequately care for her, finding that the nursing home failed to show that the daughter who signed the arbitration agreement had express or apparent authority to enter into arbitration on the decedent’s behalf....