Preferred Care of Delaware, Inc. v. Vanarsdale

ROGERS, Circuit Judge.

This case involves the propriety of Colorado River abstention in a federal lawsuit brought under the Federal Arbitration Act. After Simm VanArsdale’s mother died in the care of a nursing home run by Preferred Care of Delaware, he brought suit in state court on behalf of her estate, asserting a number of state-law claims of negligence as well as a claim for wrongful death. While his mother was still alive, VanArsdale had assumed authority over her financial and health care decisions through a general durable power-of-attorney agreement, and, acting under that authority,…