Posted On: June 23, 2008, 3:30 pm CDT

Posted By: Paul Bland

The person claiming to be named "chad balaamba" says that arbitration is a way to avoid class actions. ?? Does chad know what a class action is? Class actions are lawsuits filed where everyone was cheated in the same way, like a phone company charging everyone in a state a municipal sales tax when most of the people in the state don't live in the municipality. Nursing home cases are nothing like that. I've never seen a nursing home case where someone sued and said "oh, a drunken orderly accidentally drowned 35 people on the second floor, this is a class action." Cases against nursing homes involve medical malpractice, elder abuse, etc.; horrible mistreatment of vulnerable persons. They are classic individual cases. This issue has nothing to do with class actions. Chad's generic tort reform remark suggests he just opposes any remedy for any injured person, without thinking about what their cases might be.