Clark v. Renaissance West, LLC

OPINION

GOULD, Judge.

¶ 1 This appeal examines whether the trial court erred in ruling that an arbitration agreement was substantively unconscionable because the cost to arbitrate was prohibitively high. For the following reasons, we affirm.

Facts and Procedural Background

¶ 2 After having surgery for a hip fracture, eighty-eight-year-old John H. Clark (“Plaintiff’) was admitted into Springdale West, a skilled nursing facility owned by Renaissance West, LLC and Renaissance West Realty, LLC (collectively, “Defendants”). Three days later, he signed an arbitration agreement (the “Agreement”) which…