{"id":2140,"date":"2014-10-06T15:14:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T15:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapleslawokc.com\/blog\/?p=2140"},"modified":"2014-10-06T15:14:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T15:14:17","slug":"oklahoma-court-upholds-familys-right-to-pursue-a-wrongful-death-claim-nursing-home-resident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapleslawokc.com\/blog\/firm-news\/oklahoma-court-upholds-familys-right-to-pursue-a-wrongful-death-claim-nursing-home-resident\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Court Upholds Family\u2019s Right to Pursue a Wrongful Death Claim on Behalf of Nursing Home Resident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court of Oklahoma recently found that a nursing home arbitration agreement is not binding to beneficiaries or next of kin in the event of a wrongful death claim. The opinion arose from a case involving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mapleslawokc.com\/verdicts-settlements.html\">clients of the Maples Law Firm<\/a>, a family seeking compensation following the death of a loved one at an Oklahoma City nursing home.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, in 2010, a then 87-year-old woman was admitted to the Grace Living Center. As part of admission, the woman\u2019s daughter, acting as her representative, signed a Dispute Resolution Provision stating that any legal matters would be handled by a third-party arbitrator and not through litigation.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>However, within a year, the woman\u2019s son and daughter sued the nursing home, claiming negligence and the violation the Nursing Home Care Act. The Grace Living Center asserted that, due to the arbitration agreement signed by the woman\u2019s representative, the claims must be dealt with through arbitration. Before any response was made, the woman passed away in June 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Acting as the personal representative of the woman\u2019s estate, her son petitioned the court to amend the initial suit to add survivor claims and wrongful death claims. The trial judge granted both.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to repel the ruling, Grace Living Center argued that the arbitration agreement still applied to surviving family members of the deceased, and therefore, the family could not seek litigation. The District Court of Oklahoma County concluded that the wrongful death claim is separate from the arbitration agreement and denied the nursing home\u2019s motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court of Oklahoma recently found that a nursing home arbitration agreement is not binding to beneficiaries or next of kin in the event of a wrongful death claim.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firm-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Oklahoma Court Upholds Family\u2019s Right to Pursue a Wrongful Death Claim on Behalf of Nursing Home Resident<\/title>\n<meta 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