December 19, 2012
Dow Chemical Corp. lost its bid Tuesday to escape long-running multidistrict litigation brought by direct purchasers accusing it and other urethane foam makers of conspiring to fix prices, with a Kansas federal judge saying the plaintiffs had offered evidence of a conspiracy.
January 03, 2012
Huntsman International LLC on Friday settled three suits brought by direct purchasers as part of a long-running multidistrict litigation in Kansas accusing urethane foam makers of conspiring to fix prices.
September 28, 2011
A Kansas federal judge on Tuesday ordered Leggett & Platt Inc. to hand over telephone records and expense reports that its opponents in a multidistrict litigation say may implicate Leggett in a wide-ranging scheme to fix prices on flexible polyurethane foam.
September 21, 2011
A class of direct purchaser plaintiffs in a long-running multidistrict litigation accusing urethane foam makers of conspiring to fix prices asked a Kansas federal court Wednesday to approve their $51 million settlement with BASF Corp.
June 03, 2011
Huntsman International LLC has agreed to pay $33 million to settle claims from direct purchasers in multidistrict urethane antitrust litigation, while bankrupt Lyondell Chemical Co. likewise reached a deal to exit the long-running case in Kansas, the plaintiffs said Thursday.
January 20, 2010
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a group of direct purchaser plaintiffs in the long-running multidistrict antitrust litigation against urethane manufacturers and distributors to produce downstream data on how they used, sold and marketed items made with the chemical.
August 31, 2009
A federal judge has refused a bid by BASF Corp. and other defendants to reconsider a portion of a ruling in the urethane multidistrict litigation concerning fraudulent concealment of a price-fixing conspiracy.
August 13, 2009
A magistrate judge has ordered BASF Corp., Huntsman International LLC and the Dow Chemical Co. to produce documents related to commerce outside the U.S., in the multidistrict litigation over an alleged antitrust conspiracy in the urethane market.
August 05, 2009
Plaintiffs suing BASF Corp., Huntsman International LLC and The Dow Chemical Co. over an alleged antitrust conspiracy in the urethane market are asking the judge overseeing the multidistrict litigation to force those companies to fork over documents related to commerce outside the United States.
February 24, 2009
Two chemical companies that had opted out of a $55.3 million settlement with Bayer AG over an alleged price-fixing conspiracy in the urethane market can now join the settlement class, a federal judge has ruled.