Last week, the United States Supreme Court reportedly refused to consider two wrongful death cases against nursing homes in Illinois and Kentucky where the plaintiff signed an arbitration agreement. In Carter v. SSC Odin Operating Co., LLC, No. 12-1012, the daughter of a woman who died while in the care of an Illinois nursing home filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the facility. At the time of the woman’s admission, her daughter, Sue Carter, signed an arbitration agreement on her incapacitated...
