"Whenever we bid for a contract, we have to bear in mind the interests of licence-fee payers and we always have to seek value for money, " the BBC said in a statement.
Plaintiff lawyers often criticize the lodestar method, saying a simple percentage fee does a better job of aligning their interests with those of the plaintiffs.
All of these scandals involve similar business practices: companies that purport to be acting in the best interests of their clients (for a fee) are secretly profiting from ripping them off.
The Supreme Court could use this case to revisit the question of whether class actions are driven by the interests of real plaintiffs with real monetary claims, or lawyers interested in a big fee.
If the medical experts in Congress haven't decided that some treatment or service is worthy of the fee schedule, then the program won't pay for it even if it is in the best interests of patients.