By Phil Raymond, Staff Writer Employers and employees have long fought over how to handle disputes between them. Typically, arbitration clauses are instituted, often without the employee’s knowledge, to circumvent federal and state court systems to handle such disputes. On October 2, 2017, the Supreme Court of the United […]
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The Fight on Arbitration in Nursing Homes
By Susan Pickup, Staff Writer The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHS), just enacted a provision forbidding nursing home facilities that receive federal funding to force potential patients to enter into pre-dispute arbitration agreements before receiving care.[1] […]