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113 Penn St. L. Rev. 527 (2008-2009)
Arbitrating Wrongful Death Claims for Nursing Home Patients: What is Wrong with the Picture and How to Make It More Right

handle is hein.journals/dlr113 and id is 535 raw text is: Arbitrating Wrongful Death Claims for Nursing Home Patients: What is Wrong with this Picture and How to Make it More Right Suzanne M. Scheller* Table of Contents I. IN TRO DUCTION ........................................................................... 529 II. B ACKGROUND ............................................................................ 53 1 A. Federal Law Governing Arbitration Agreements ............... 532 B. State Law Versus Federal Law ........................................... 533 III. CURRENT COURT INTERPRETATION OF ARBITRATION C LA U SES .................................................................................... 534 A. Applicable Federal or State Law ........................................ 536 B. Validity ofArbitration Agreement ...................................... 539 1. A uthority of the Signor ................................................. 539 i. Attorney-in-Fact as Signor ..................................... 540 ii. Personal Representative as Signor .......................... 541 iii. Health Care Proxy/Medical Power of Attorney as S ign or ..................................................................... 54 2 iv. Statutory or Surrogate Signor ................................. 543 v. A gent as Signor ...................................................... 544 vi. Third-Party Beneficiaries ....................................... 546 vii. Separate Signature on the Arbitration Agreement.. 547 2. U nconscionability ......................................................... 548 i. Procedural Unconscionability ................................ 549 ii. Substantive Unconscionability ............................... 551 * Copyright © 2008. Suzanne Scheller is a May 2008 graduate of Hamline University School of Law and an associate at Pearson, Randall, Schumacher & LaBore, PA in Minneapolis, MN. She obtained her ADR certificate while at Hamline and has dedicated much of her education to furthering alternative dispute resolution, including taking a critical look at opportunities to strengthen both ADR and important public policy. She is a qualified neutral under Rule 114 of the Minnesota General Rules of Practice in the civil adjudicative and facilitative processes.

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