Oftentimes it does. In one of the cases that our colleague from New York reflected on, it was costing her hundreds of thousands of dollars. In this case I am going to speak about, the patient, the client at the nursing home had to pay money, some $3,000 for the rental of the room in which the arbitration took place. So it is like a double slap in the face.
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