Split Panel: Decedent’s Daughter Lacked Authority To Sign Arbitration Agreement

(December 1, 2022, 11:26 AM EST) -- JACKSON, Miss. — A divided Mississippi appellate court affirmed a lower court decision that denied a motion to compel arbitration filed by a nursing home in a wrongful death suit filed against it by the son of a decedent who died there, finding that the decedent lacked the mental capacity to sign the arbitration agreement and that his daughter, who signed the agreement on his behalf, did not have the authority to sign as his agent....

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