Covenant Health & Rehabilitation of Picayune, LP v. Estate of Moulds Ex Rel. Braddock

ISHEE, J.,

for the Court.

¶ 1. James Braddock, on behalf of his deceased mother, Mittie M. Moulds, filed suit against Covenant Health and Rehabilitation of Picayune (Covenant Health) for wrongful death relating to his mother’s stay at one of their facilities, the Picayune Convalescent Center. Covenant Health subsequently sought to compel arbitration based on the arbitration clause found in the admissions agreement governing Moulds’s stay in that facility. The circuit court refused to compel arbitration, finding that Braddock lacked the power to enter into an arbitration agreement on behalf of…