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Monday, May 30, 2016
Backyard golf raises $50,000 for legal aid
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2-month total $100,000 History was made May 22 in attorney Steve Pajcic’s backyard. The notable moment came when Tom Lloyd, playing in the fourth annual Wiffle Golf & Happy Hour at Anne and Steve Pajcic’s home in Avondale, made a hole-in-one on the 6th hole. The ace, the first in the history of the event, was worth $6,000 to Lloyd – and $6.000 to Jacksonville Area Legal Aid. “It’s $6,000 for the sixth hole. We’ve been hoping for one,” said Steve Pajcic. The Pajcic & Pajcic law firm established the event to be an annual fundraiser for JALA. Each year, Pajcic matches 100 percent of entry fees, sponsorships and donations from participants to help provide legal aid for people
in 17 North Florida counties. After all the pledges are received, this year’s total should be about $50,000, he said. The tournament was one of four fundraisers for legal aid in April and May that raised more than $100,000 to help fund legal services for people who otherwise would not be represented by an attorney, said Carter DeWitt, JALA chief development officer. Two events in April – the Equal Justice Awards dinner and the inaugural Ninja Warrior competiion – raised a combined $46,000 for JALA. Sponsors put the Law Day luncheon in May over the $5,000 mark, and the Young Lawyers Division of the St. Johns County Bar raised $3,000 for JALA at “Cornhole for a Cause” at the Fountain of Youth. The yard golf event put the two-month total over $100,000. “We had quite an April and May,” said DeWitt. In addition to the record contribution, Pajcic said the fourth edition of his event attracted a different crowd than in years past. The group of about 100 people who attended included former Jacksonville Jaguar Donovin Darius and Edward Waters College President Nat Glover. This being an election year, several candidates also made an appearance, “judicial and otherwise,” Pajcic said. Attorney John Morgan of Morgan & Morgan made the largest single donation this year when he wrote JALA a $6,000 check. That’s what the JALA
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Scales-Taylor’s career and retirement grounded in community By Karen Brune Mathis, Managing Editor
Scales-Taylor knows people. M adeline For almost 40 years, she managed
workforce development for companies including Saks Fifth Avenue, Melville Corp. and May Company Stores. The St. Louis native moved to Jacksonville in 1989 and soon joined Mayo Clinic, where she chaired the department of human resources and established the community affairs initiatives. As the administrator, she was responsible for the philanthropic, civic and volunteer efforts of 5,000 Mayo employees. She was there almost 18 years. Scales-Taylor, 67, retired in 2009, but her community leadership continues. Success
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Madeline Scales-Taylor at home and, right, wearing her OneJax Humanitarian Honoree medallion.
Aetna, Humana still face antitrust issues Although Aetna Inc. agreed to buy Humana Inc. for $37 billion last summer, both companies independently moved forward with plans to relocate their Jacksonville offices away from Downtown to suburban offices on the Southside. It’s probably a good thing the companies didn’t wait on completion of the merger to make those decisions because according to a couple of reports last week, there are still antitrust concerns that could derail the deal. Bloomberg News reported that, based on the track record of the U.S. Justice Department under the Obama administration, the Aetna-Humana deal may have a tough time getting federal approval. Aetna’s proposed acquisition of Humana
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coincides with another health insurer deal in which Anthem Inc. agreed to buy Cigna Corp. That would reduce the number of major national health insurance companies to three: Aetna, Anthem and UnitedHealth Group Inc. Analysts are debating if the Justice Department will let that happen, given that it has been unkind to mergers that potentially reduce competition. The Aetna-Humana deal took another hit last week when the Missouri Department of Insurance ruled the merger would lessen competition in “a few specified lines of insurance” in the state. That ruling is very unlikely to stop the merger but it again raised attention about the antitrust issues.
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The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation approved the deal in February and Aetna said at the time that it had received 10 of 20 required state approvals for the deal. With the deal still a long way from completion, Aetna and Humana have not said how the merger would affect Jacksonville operations. However, Aetna last week announced it
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will relocate its Jacksonville office from the 22-story Aetna Building on the Southbank at 841 Prudential Drive to a new office at 9000 Southside Blvd. in the Gramercy Woods office park near The Avenues mall. Aetna has about 800 employees but said the Southside site was chosen “with potential employment growth in mind.” Before the merger was announced in July 2015, Humana had already made plans to move 100 employees out of Downtown Jacksonville to two Southside locations, Prominence Plaza in Baymeadows and Merchants Walk in Mandarin. The merger agreement did not stop that process. Aetna has said it hopes to complete the acquisition in the second half of this year. Success continued on Page A-9
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