A Philadelphia judge has held that an alternative dispute resolution agreement signed by a medical malpractice plaintiff’s mother is not enforceable.
Plaintiff Lakeysha Walton, who lives with her mother, Nancy Walton, in Trenton, N.J., is suing Kindred Hospital Philadelphia, Kindred Hospital East and Kindred Healthcare Inc. over allegations that she received negligent care at Kindred Hospital and that bedsores she had developed while admitted to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Jersey worsened once she transferred to Kindred Hospital while in a coma, according to the opinion in Walton v. Kindred Hospital Philadelphia .
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