Nursing Home Arbitration Agreement Ruled Uneforceable

In the case of Gratalo v. Kingston SNF Healthcare, LLC, No. 2024-CV-04585 (C.P. Luz. Zo. April 25, 2025 Saylor, S.J.), the court found an arbitration agreement unenforceable relative to the admissions of an adult individual with down syndrome into a nursing home by his mother.

The court noted that the Defendants did not provide evidence to show that the family was properly advised as to the applicability and the parameters of arbitration agreement. The court also noted that the arbitration agreement was not conspicuously displayed in the documents.

Given the substantiative unconscionability of the arbitration agreement, the court found that the agreement was unenforceable. As such, the court rejected the Defendant’s efforts to have this case taken out of the litigation and put into an arbitration.

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I send thanks to Attorney Thomas J. Foley, III of the Foley Law Firm in Scranton for bringing this decision to my attention.

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