Zampogna v. Law Enforcement Health Benefits, Inc.

OPINION

JUSTICE BAER

In this discretionary appeal, we are asked to determine the narrow issue of whether Law Enforcement Health Benefits, Inc. (“LEHB”), a nonprofit corporation that administers health and welfare benefits to Philadelphia police officers as part of the union’s collective bargaining agreement, is authorized under the Pennsylvania Nonprofit Corporation Law (“NCL”), 15 Pa.C.S. §§ 5101-6162, as well as its Articles of Incorporation, to expend its corporate funds to pay for a postcard sent to its members endorsing a candidate in a union election. For the reasons that follow, we find…