Word: nonprofits
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...works out of a small firm in Oxford, Miss., with his son Zach and two other lawyers. Scruggs has given up the Bentley for a more modest BMW. "He got it out of his system," an associate says. And Scruggs insists that his latest crusade--against nonprofit hospitals he says are gouging the poor--isn't about the money, at least not for himself. "It would be greedy for those of us who made a lot of money off tobacco not to use it for endeavors like this," he says...
Since June, the courtly Scruggs and a group of other trial lawyers, including ex-tobacco litigators, have filed 48 class actions against more than 400 nonprofit hospitals, including some of the largest and most prestigious health-care providers in California, Illinois, New York and Texas. They have anted up $1.5 million of their own funds to pursue the cases. More suits are being filed almost weekly, all with a similar complaint: that the hospitals are charging the uninsured grossly inflated prices, dispensing a tiny fraction of their revenues in charity care, engaging in abusive collection tactics and, in some cases...
...tricky thing about Scruggs' challenge is that he's taking on widespread industry practices, not just a handful of allegedly corrupt hospitals. The hospital industry's main lobbying group, the American Hospital Association (AHA), says the cases are "without merit." The main contention of the lawsuits is that nonprofit hospitals aren't spending enough on charity care--a condition of their tax breaks. But the AHA points out that hospitals spent $22.3 billion on uncompensated care last year and billions more in "community benefits." The trial lawyers, the AHA insists, are diverting focus from the real crisis: a record...
...loosened the LRAP eligibility requirements to encourage K-School grads to take lower-paying jobs working for government agencies and nonprofit groups...
Matthew Cook, executive director of the Association for the Conservation of the Mono Titi (ASCOMOTI), a nonprofit dedicated to saving the endangered Costa Rican red-backed squirrel monkey, says an industry-wide drive is needed to prevent further environmental destruction. In Manuel Antonio, the organization has the support of 28 businesses that fund conservation and reforestation programs. Thanks to the efforts of some forward-thinking hoteliers, for travelers who relish a cocktail by the pool, conservation could not get any easier...