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A recent Missouri Supreme Court<\/a> case ruled that a nursing home cannot enforce a mandatory arbitration clause against a former resident\u2019s children even if an arbitration agreement with the nursing home had been signed. The court found that \u201cthe plaintiff in a wrongful death action <\/a>is not bound by an arbitration agreement signed\u201d by a sister on the mother\u2019s behalf in Lawrence v. Beverly Manor<\/em>, 2009 WL 77897 (Mo. Jan 13, 2009)<\/a>.
\nIn 2003, the resident, Dorothy Lawrence, began living at Beverly Manor Nursing Home in St. Joseph, Missouri. At the time Lawrence’s daughter, Phyllis Skoglund, had power of attorney for her mother and signed the contract with the nursing home on behalf of the resident.
\nThis contract included an arbitration clause that stated that “any and all claims, disputes and controversies [regarding the nursing home’s care and treatment of Lawrence] shall be resolved exclusively by binding arbitration”.
\nShortly after her admittance to the nursing home, and the signing of the contract, Lawrence died. Her family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Beverly Manor Nursing Home alleging that she died as a result of the nursing home’s negligence<\/a> when she was dropped by the nursing home staff.
\nA trial court ruled that the wrongful death claim could go forward despite the contract including the arbitration language. This decision was affirmed by the Missouri appellate court, at which point Beverly Manor Nursing Home appealed to the Missouri Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

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