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Date published: 7/16/2008
Nursing home corporations are using arbitration to prevent judges and juries A Free Lance-Star article ["Elderly Arbitration provisions force victims to surrender their disputes to an arbitrator, who, many times, is hand-picked by the nursing home, actively represents the Nursing homes declare that arbitration Arbitration is less expensive only for nursing homes. Victims of nursing home abuse and neglect have a right to hold nursing home corporations fully and publicly accountable in courts of law. If we allow that right to be stripped from them, we make value judgments no less culpable than those that resulted in the abuse and neglect--that the elderly, the abused, the neglected are somehow less entitled, less important, and less deserving. If every life is worth living, if there If nursing home corporations would place as great a premium on providing good care, arbitration provisions would be as unnecessary as they are immoral. Robert W. Carter Jr. Appomattox The writer is an attorney whose practice is devoted
I'm in the process of a wrongful death suit for my mother. The State is dragging on the arbitration and it's close to the end of the statutes of limitations. Watch the time lines for these things, there is corruption on all levels on nursing home abuse. Even the attorney is baffled on what to do from here. This is World Elder Abuse Day so lets all be vigilant!
The problem is by the time many end up on the doorstep needing their services (sometimes suddenly following a stroke or other medical issue) they have no choice but to sign the agreement or be turned away. “Sign here or don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out, and don’t forget to take grandma with you!” There is no choice, and that is sooo sad.
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