LAUGHLIN v. EVANSTON HOSPITAL

No. 86-1970.

163 Ill. App.3d 10 (1987)

516 N.E.2d 468

WALTER LAUGHLIN et al., Trustees of Masonry Institute, Welfare Fund of Bricklayers Local 21, et al., on their own behalf and on behalf of a class of all other parties similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. EVANSTON HOSPITAL et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District (3rd Division).

Rehearing denied December 8, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert F. Coleman, Kenneth P. Ross, and Eugene J. Schiltz, all of Robert F. Coleman & Associates, and Eugene I. Pavalon, Michael C. Greenfield, and Stephen Feinberg, all of Asher, Pavalon, Gittler & Greenfield, Ltd., both of Chicago, for appellants.

John T. Cusack, Deborah H. Bornstein, and Bettina Weis, all of Gardner, Carton & Douglas; Jack R. Bierig, David F. Graham, and David B. Johnson, all of Sidley & Austin; Richard William Austin and Kevin J. Egan, both of Winston & Strawn; Gary Senner, Jeffrey P. Lennard, and Steven M. Levy, all of Sonnenschein, Carlin, Nath & Rosenthal; Kenneth B. Drost and Michael R. Callahan, both of Katten, Muchin, Zavis, Pearl & Galler; and Michael A. Haber, all of Chicago, for appellees.


Affirmed in part, and reversed in part and remanded.

JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs are the trustees of two union health benefit plans that pay the cost of hospital services for their members. Defendants are 10 Chicago-area hospitals which have contracted with Health Care Services Corporation (HCS), the administrator of the Illinois Blue Cross plan, to provide medical services for Blue Cross subscribers. The defendants' contracts...

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