Castle Nursing Homes, Inc.

• Fortune v. Castle Nursing Homes, Inc., (Ohio 2005)

Enforceability of arbitration clause in nursing home admission agreement.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• E Med Future Appoints New CFO.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- E Med Future, Inc. (OTCBB:EMDF) announced the appointment of Donald ... for more than 35 years and a licensed Nursing Home Administrator in the state of Ohio for more t... worked for more than 20 years with Castle Nursing Homes, Inc., a nursing home chain consisti...

• Business Wire
• November 01, 2004

• Fortune v. Castle Nursing Homes, Inc., (Ohio 2007)

Arbitration clause

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Reverse pre-empting the Federal Arbitration Act: alleviating the arbitration crisis in nursing homes.

...(7) Most recently in Doctor's Associates, Inc. v. Casarotto, (8) the Court held that states were...In Fortune v. Castle Nursing Homes, (98) the concept of loser pays prov...

• Journal of Law and Health
• Vol. 22 Nbr. 2, June 2009

• Castle Nursing Homes, Inc. v. Sullivan, (Ohio 1997)

Appeal dismissed as improvidently allowed on Propositions of Law Nos. I through IV - Civil procedure - Plain-error doctrine is not favored, but may be applied, when.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Manley v. Personacare, (Ohio 2007)

ARBITRATION – arbitration agreement; nursing home; procedural unconscionability; substantive unconscionability; relative bargaining power; payment of attorney fees; 30-day period to review agreement; not contingent upon admission; separate document.

...'s affidavit were several documents, including: (1) a competency evaluation from Dr. Bahman Shari.... 5. . Fortune v. Castle Nursing Homes, Inc., 164 Ohio App.3d 689, 2005-Ohi...

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Mildred Richeson

MILLERSBURG -- Mildred Arlene Richeson, 89, of Millersburg, passed away Tuesday morning, Dec. 18, 2007, at the Holmes County Home, Holmesville. Graveside services will be Friday, Dec. 21, at 11:30 a.m. at Eastside Cemetery, Fredericksburg.

...She also worked for Castle Nursing Homes, Inc. She was a member of Fredericks...

• Daily Record, The Wooster, OH
• December 19, 2007

• In re. Don Sullivan v., (6th Cir. 2007)

...SULLIVAN. Debtor. CASTLE NURSING HOMES, INC. Appellant. ...

• Federal Circuits

• Nursing Home Suits Heat Up

There's a new flurry of litigation over mandatory arbitration provisions in nursing home admissions contracts. There's a ton of litigation. It's a fairly rapid and recent development," said Paul Bland of Public Justice in Washington D.C., who receives two to three calls per week from plaintiffs' attorneys attempting to challenge arbitration clauses in nursing home agreements.

Nursing homes have made a big push in the past two years to requ... print, require separate initialing and include a 7-day opt-out provision in an effort to make the...(Fortune v. Castle Nursing Homes Inc., No. 07-CA- 001 (Ohio Ct. App. ...

• Lawyers USA
• June 12, 2008

• Bayes v. Merle's Metro Builders/Blvd. Constr., L.L.C., (Ohio 2007)

ARBITRATION – preprinted contract; substantive unconscionability; failure to explain waiver of jury trial; procedural unconscionability; bargaining power; lay consumers; business acumen.

... Ball v. Ohio State Home Servs., Inc., 168 Ohio App.3d 622, 2006-Ohio-4464, at ¶5. Ho...Castle Nursing Homes, Inc., 164 Ohio App.3d 689, 2005-Ohi...

• Ohio Supreme Court