ATLANTA, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Monty Veazey, President and CEO of the Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals, today praised a Federal court decision blocking consolidation of some 45 lawsuits against not-for-profit hospitals across the country, including approximately 15 in Georgia.
In a ruling issued earlier Wednesday, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation issued a ruling denying a request by Mississippi plaintiff attorney Richard Scruggs to combine all of the lawsuits he and others had filed against not-for-profit hospitals and put the consolidated case before a single judge.
"We applaud this decision," said Veazey. "The court's decision wisely rejected Mr. Scruggs' one-size-fits-all version of the allegations in these lawsuits and sends the cases back to their local jurisdictions, which is where they belong. Georgia's not-for-profit hospitals have maintained from day one that these allegations are baseless and without merit, and we have said we look forward to defending our positions and our good names in court. We still do."
The Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals is an association that represents the interests of approximately 70 not-for-profit hospitals, both rural and urban, in Georgia.
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