Note: The problems at Singing River Health System (Jackson
County) continue to mount. The Sun-Herald has been breaking stories
about the troubled hospital system since November. It is important to
start from the beginning, so JJ is posting stories about this fiasco starting from several weeks ago, to give readers the history of this
story.
The Sun-Herald reported on December 5 that Singing River was stopped from closing down its troubled pension plan. The newspaper reported:
A chancery court judge on Friday temporarily prohibited the Singing River Health System from terminating its employee pension plan.
Judge Jaye Bradley found health system employees and retirees could "suffer irreparable harm and damage" and could be without a legal remedy if the plan were terminated.
The Denham and Barton law firms in Jackson County filed the lawsuit on behalf of Cynthia N. Almond, who contributed to the retirement plan while she worked at Singing River from 1991 through 2007. Attorney Earl Denham told the Sun Herald attorneys hope to recover for beneficiaries about $140 million the pension plan is short and prevent SRHS from paying liquidation expenses from the plan, including attorneys' fees and other costs.
Attorneys who requested the judge's action, called a temporary restraining order, also asked that Singing River be prohibited from destroying any pension-related records or computer entries.
Denham said a hearing in the case is set at 9 a.m. Monday in Bradley's Lucedale courtroom to determine whether the restraining order should remain in place, although Singing River was requesting more time to respond.... Rest of the article.
5 comments:
http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2014/12/ruling_on_request_for_new_rest.html In this Ms.Press article the first crack in the SRHS board of trustees damn has appeared. Trustee Michael Tolleson has hired legal counsel and is objecting to the cases being moved from state court to federal court by the lawyers for SRHS. This is very important because it is my understanding that without having all trustees in agreement the cases will have to remain in state court. Look for further division in the trustees at the next secret meeting the public has no right to attend.
Glad you went back and picked up from the beginning. One or two self-important assholes on here usually admonishes us all to go back to the archives and read the prior posts and put the puzzle together.
Baptist Employees need to be very afraid with Chris Anderson at the helm. I sure hope they are following the Singing River Hospital pension plan deception/fraud created by Mr. Anderson.
What did Chris Anderson do wrong?? Either specify the crime or leave the man alone.
HE SPECIFICALLY SENT NOTICES TO EACH INDIVIDUAL MEMBER OF THE PLAN FROM 2009-2012 TELLING THE MEMBERS THAT THE RETIREMENT PLAN WAS DOING WELL AND ALSO TELLING WACH THE SPECIFIC AMOUNT OF MONEY WAS PUT INTO THE PLAN BY THE HOSPITAL ON THEIR BEHALF. IN 2009 TGEY FUNDED HALF OF WHAT TGEY SHOULD HAVE AND HAVE NOT PUT A SINGLE PENNY INTO THE PLAN SINCE THEN!
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