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Nursing home can’t arbitrate wrongful death suit 

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    • November 20, 2012

An arbitration clause in a nursing home admission contract was not broad enough to encompass a claim for wrongful death, a Pennsylvania appellate court has ruled in affirming judgment.
A resident of the defendant’s nursing home died as a result of injuries suffered when she was thrown from a wheelchair. » […]

Original post by http://lawyersusaonline.com/blog/2012/11/20/nursing-home-cant-arbitrate-wrongful-death-suit/

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