Dickerson v. Longoria

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• applying general agency principles in deciding appointed health care representative did not possess authority to bind patient to arbitration agreement
• rejecting equitable estoppel argument because defendant did not identify any way in which it had changed its position for the worse
• declining to compel estate of nursing home patient to arbitrate dispute with nursing home where there was no evidence that nursing home “changed its position for the worse based on [personal representative’s] assertion”
• declining to compel estate of nursing home patient to arbitrate dispute with nursing home where there was no evidence that nursing home “changed its position for the worse based on [personal representative’s] assertion”
• “[T]he decision to enter into an arbitration agreement primarily concerns the signatory’s decision to waive his or her right of access to the courts and right to a trial by jury.”
• agent’s authority limited to authority granted by principal; agent had some authority to make decisions on principal’s behalf, but only in a limited fashion, and agent’s signing of agreement for principal to arbitrate was not within scope of agent’s authority

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