Wheeler v. St. Joseph Hospital

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• adopting \impression of possible bias\ standard and holding that arbitrator had duty to disclose business relationship with party's law firm
• adopting “impression of possible bias” standard and holding that arbitrator had duty to disclose business relationship with party’s law firm
• cit ing Smith v. Westland Life Ins. Co., 15 Cal.3d 111, 122-23, 123 Cal.Rptr. 649, 539 P.2d 433 (1975)
• stress of hospital admitting room, superior bargaining position of hospital, failure to call patient's attention to arbitration clause
• \The fundamental assumption of arbitration is that it may be invoked as an alternative to the settlement of disputes through the judicial process `only by reason of an exercise of choice by [all] parties.'\
• cit- ing Smith v. Westland Life Ins. Co., 15 Cal. 3d 111, 122-23 (1975

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