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Finally holding nursing homes accountable: New York rights a wrong – New York Daily News
Contrast this with the utter inequity in a nursing home arbitration agreement. On one side, you have a large nursing home chain with a team of lawyers, carefully drafting a one-sided legal agreement in their favor. On the other side, you have an elderly patient, likely confused, in the wake of being transferred into a new living environment from a hospital. They are told to sign a stack of papers. They literally have no idea that they are waiving a …
