JALA receives cy pres award in health-care billing case

Jacksonville Area Legal Aid recently received a $51,356 cy pres award resulting from a case in which attorney Jordan A. Shaw represented a class of patients who were improperly billed by a hospital for the difference between the provider’s charge and the allowed amount under their insurance. Shaw, a partner at Zebersky Payne Shaw Lewenz, LLP, chairs the firm’s Consumer Litigation Practice Group and co-chairs its Commercial Litigation Practice Group.