O'DONNELL v. SARDEGNA

No. 138, September Term, 1993.

336 Md. 18 (1994)

CHARLES F. O'DONNELL, M.D. ET AL. v. CARL J. SARDEGNA ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

August 25, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abraham A. Dash, Bowie (Jon W. Brassel, Brassel & Baldwin, all on brief, Annapolis, Stephen J. Nolan, Nolan, Plumhoff & Williams, Chtd., all on brief), Towson, for appellant.

George Beall (Stephen J. Immelt, James J. Benjamin, Jr., Hogan & Hartson, all on brief, Baltimore), for appellees William A. Beasman, Jr.; Barry Bosworth; J. Owen Cole; Dan A. Colussy; M. Thomas Goedeke, Ed.D.; Frank A. Gunther, Jr.; John D. Jeffries; and Albin O. Kuhn.

Jeffrey B. Maletta* (Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, Washington, DC, Richard C. Burch, Mudd, Harrison & Burch, Towson, John E. Sandbower, III, Phillips P. O'Shaughnessy, Sandbower, Gabler & O'Shaughnessy, P.A., Robert E. Scott, Jr., P.C., Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, all of Baltimore, Chadbourne & Parke of New York City, all on briefs), for appellee.

Before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ.


RODOWSKY, Judge.

The plaintiffs in this case (Plaintiffs) are subscribers to health services insurance plans offered by a nonstock, non-profit corporation. They sued, on behalf of the corporation, former officers and certain of the corporation's then present directors. Because no Plaintiff is a director or member of the corporation, no Plaintiff has standing to bring this derivative action.

The corporation is Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Maryland, Inc. (BCBSM...

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