Corizon Health, Inc. has engaged in legal maneuvers to weasel out of over $38 million to staff and vendors, as well as plaintiffs who won lawsuits for deplorable medical care.
Corizon converted to a Texas corporation for the sole reason of performing a divisional merger, which divides the company into multiple corporations. Texas allows this under TeX.Bus.Orgs code 10.001. Then Corizon declares bankruptcy to avoid paying their legal obligations.
As previously reported, Arizona DOC contracted with Corizon between 2012 and 2019. In that time 31 lawsuits by prisoners and their survivors were lodged against the company for inadequate health care. It’s possible that the state prison system may have to pay all those awards. AND the court ordered fines of 2 million dollars imposed by Judge Silver for substandard prison health care.
Good luck collecting that!