For a bench that usually protects arbitration agreements from attack, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed unusually hostile to such arrangements when they are embedded in nursing home contracts.
The court heard arguments in Kindred Nursing Centers v. Clark, in which the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled against enforcing arbitration agreements that were signed on behalf of two nursing home residents by relatives with “power of attorney.”
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