Wellness, Inc. v. Pearl River County Hospital and Nursing Home

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• holding that an arbitration agreement is not valid because the hospital board minutes did not include sufficient reference to liabilities and obligations to mediate or arbitrate
• applying minutes rule to “first determine if there is a contract between the Hospital and Wellness within which the parties agreed to mediate or arbitrate their claims”
• finding that because the minutes from the meetings of the board of trustees of a community hospital did not “set forth sufficient terms to establish the liabilities and obligations of the parties,” there was no contract between the parties that could be enforced by the court
• declining to grant an exception to the minutes rule in a case in which the board of trustees had discussed the contract on its minutes, had ultimately approved the contract, and had paid for services rendered under the agreement
• board of trustees of community hospital must keep minutes of its official business and speaks and acts only through its minutes
• board of trustees of community hospital must keep minutes of its official business and speaks and acts only through its minutes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).