Finney v. National Healthcare Corp.

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• holding that decedent’s daughter, who was a nonparty to the arbitration agreement, did not stand in the shoes of the decedent with respect to a wrongful-death action because such action did not belong to the decedent or decedent’s estate
• holding that a “wrongful death claim does not belong to the deceased or even to a decedent’s estate,” and, thus, a non-party to an arbitration agreement is not bound by it in an independent wrongful death case
• refusing to compel 4 In some states, wrongful death is a “deivative” action pursuant to staute. See Ballard v. Southwest Detroit Hosp., 327 N.W.2d 370, 371 (Mich. Ct. App. 1982
• “The wrongful death claim does not belong to the deceased or even to a decedent’s estate.”

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