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Call It Yale v. Yale.

Authors :
Lagnado, Lucette
Source :
Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition. 11/14/2003, Vol. 242 Issue 97, pB1-B4. 2p. 1 Color Photograph.
Publication Year :
2003

Abstract

Focuses on the lawsuit filed by Yale University law students against the Yale-New Haven Hospital, the teaching hospital of Yale's School of Medicine, on behalf of poor patients who have tangled with the hospital's aggressive debt-collection tactics. Details of an article that appeared in "The Wall Street Journal" that chronicled a widower still paying off his wife's Yale-New Haven bill 20 years after her death; Legislation signed by Connecticut Governor John Rowland aimed at limiting the interest hospitals can tack onto their bills; Number of hospitals making up the American Hospital Association, who have urged their members to practice kinder debt-collection; Legal strategies to be employed by the Yale law students against the hospital.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00999660
Volume :
242
Issue :
97
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition
Publication Type :
News
Accession number :
11383174