October 09, 2015
A Pennsylvania hospital operator urged a federal judge to certify a class Friday in an antitrust case accusing distributor Owens & Minor Inc. of scheming to dominate the market for sutures and stitches by improperly bundling the supplies with other items that hospitals purchased.
September 25, 2015
A unit of Cardinal Health Inc. agreed to pay $1.15 million to resolve a putative antitrust class action alleging the medical supply company conspired to dominate the market for sutures and stitches, according to documents filed Friday in Pennsylvania federal court.
July 30, 2014
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Wednesday refused to entirely throw out a putative class action against medical supply companies Cardinal Health Inc. and Owens & Minor Inc., keeping alive antitrust injury claims but tossing allegations of conspiracy and unlawful monopolization.
March 20, 2014
Two medical supply companies asked a Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday to throw out a putative class action that alleged they had conspired to dominate the market for sutures and stitches, arguing the Pennsylvania hospital operator that brought the suit was not harmed by their pricing strategies.
July 18, 2013
An attorney for Owens & Minor Inc. asked a Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday to kick a putative class action against the company and Cardinal Health Inc. to federal court in Kansas, arguing that it duplicates a related antitrust suit pending in the same district.
December 19, 2012
A Pennsylvania hospital operator launched a putative class action in federal court Tuesday against Cardinal Health Inc. and Owens & Minor Inc, alleging the firms engaged in a monopolistic scheme to get small hospitals to purchase sutures, stitches and similar merchandise only from them.