MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A Birmingham law firm representing a Tennessee-based healthcare company that recently lost a $1 billion contract with the Alabama Department of Corrections has requested to withdraw from two lawsuits involving the company.
Philip Paggott, a shareholder with Rushton, Stakely, Johnston & Garrett, P.A., wrote in a filing with the U.S. Middle District of Alabama that YesCare, doing business as Corizon Health Care (CHS) had not paid the firm since the beginning of the year.
“The below-signed counsel has been informed by the general counsel for CHS AL, LLC, Scott King, that CHS AL, LLC does not have the resources to pay any legal invoices currently owed nor does it have any financial resources at this juncture to pay any legal expenses going forward,” Paggott said in a filing with the court…