March 29, 2018
A Florida magistrate judge recommended Wednesday that Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PPLC not be allowed to collect over $600,000 in attorneys' fees from a now-settled antitrust case against a hospital group, finding the firm had voluntarily withdrawn before trial and waived its right to compensation.
October 17, 2017
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC forfeited its right to any fees from a now-settled antitrust case against a hospital group when it opted to withdraw without facing circumstances in which staying in the case would be "legally impossible," the firm's former client told a Florida federal court Monday.
September 11, 2017
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC asked a Florida federal court on Friday for $611,000 in attorneys’ fees from a former client representing doctors in a now-settled $360 million antitrust dispute with a hospital group, arguing that the doctors group can't cut it out of the settlement.
August 25, 2017
A Florida federal judge ruled Thursday that Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC can intervene in an already signed $360 million antitrust settlement between doctors and a hospital group to argue for a slice of counsel fees.
July 31, 2017
A Florida federal judge on Friday said Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC should be allowed to intervene in an already signed $360 million antitrust settlement, calling the firm's bid to argue for a slice of plaintiffs counsel fees timely.
March 31, 2017
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC asked Friday to intervene in a now-settled $360 million antitrust dispute between doctors and the Health First hospital group, arguing that the firm is owed a cut of attorneys' fees in the settlement because of its early work on the case.
January 30, 2017
A group of doctors who say they never consented to the settlement in a $360 million antitrust suit against the Health First hospital group lost their argument when a federal judge ruled the evidence suggested otherwise and the issue was not properly before the court anyway.
November 22, 2016
Whatley Kallas LLP told a Florida federal court Monday that the doctors who retained the law firm in a $360 million antitrust trial against Health First Inc. were now leveling gratuitous allegations against the firm and asked the court to compel arbitration with them.
August 19, 2016
A Florida federal judge Friday found an attorney in contempt and fined him $500 for violating his instructions against using the Internet during jury selection earlier in the week in a $360 million antitrust trial pitting a group of doctors against Health First Inc. and its co-founders.
August 16, 2016
Health First Inc. and its co-founders have reached a settlement with doctors accusing them in federal court of monopolizing regional health care in Florida, according to an order filed Tuesday dismissing the trebled $360 million suit on the second day of trial.