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PLAINTIFF, DECEDENT’S SON, SIGNED THE NURSING HOME ADMISSION AGREEMENT WHEN HIS FATHER, WHO HAD DEMENTIA, WAS ADMITTED; THE NURSING HOME DID NOT DEMONSTRATE PLAINTIFF, BY SIGNING THE ADMISSION AGREEMENT, HAD THE AUTHORITY TO BIND DECEDENT TO ARBITRATION OF DECEDENT’S NEGLIGENCE/PERSONAL INJURY ACTION AGAINST THE NURSING HOME (SECOND DEPT). ​

he Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined defendant nursing home did not demonstrate plaintiff had the authority to bind the decedent to arbitration concerning the decedent’s negligence/personal injury action against the nursing home. Plaintiff is the decedent’s son who signed the admission agreement when his father, who suffered from dementia, was admitted. The nursing home did not present sufficient proof of plaintiff’s authority to sign the admission agreement on decedent’s behalf:

A party seeking to compel arbitration must establish “the existence of a valid agreement to arbitrate” … . Here, the defendants failed to meet that burden because they did not submit sufficient evidence of the plaintiff’s authority to bind the decedent to arbitration at the time he signed the admission agreement on the decedent’s behalf. Most significantly, the defendants failed to submit the instrument through which the plaintiff allegedly derived his authority to bind the decedent to arbitration … . Evidence showing that the plaintiff represented to the defendants that he held a power of attorney when signing the admission agreement was insufficient to establish that he, in fact, held such authority as a matter of law … . Contrary to the defendants’ further contention, neither the plaintiff’s status as the decedent’s son … , nor his apparent willingness to be the decedent’s “responsible party” under the terms of the admission agreement … , have any bearing on his authority to bind the decedent to arbitration…. . Wolf v Hollis Operating Co., LLC, 2022 NY Slip Op 06954, Second Dept 12-7-22

Practice Point: Plaintiff, decedent’s son, signed the nursing-home admission agreement when decedent, who had dementia, was admitted. The nursing home did not demonstrate plaintiff, by signing the agreement, had the authority to bind decedent to arbitration of decedent’s negligence/personal injury action against the nursing home. The fact that plaintiff represented that he had power of attorney for decedent was not enough.

 

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