Nursing Homes Increasingly Use Arbitration To Avoid Lawsuits, Reduce Costs

Nursing home residents and their families increasingly are “giving up their right to sue over disputes about care, including those involving death, as the homes write binding arbitration into their standard contracts,” the Wall Street Journal reports. Under arbitration agreements, nursing home residents and their families agree to settle disputes through a third-party arbiter.

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Filed under: Caregivers on April 17th, 2008