February 01, 2016
A Michigan federal judge on Friday approved $14 million in attorneys' fees for the lawyers representing nurses who accused eight Detroit-area hospitals of conspiring to keep their wages low, finding it was a reasonable award in the long-running antirust class action.
September 11, 2015
About a month before trial was set to begin, a Detroit hospital agreed to pay $42 million to resolve an antitrust class action brought by nurses accusing eight Detroit-area hospitals of conspiring to keep their wages low, according to documents filed Friday in Michigan federal court.
March 07, 2014
A Michigan federal judge on Friday reinstated his certification of a class of nurses who allege Detroit-area hospitals conspired to keep their wages low, rejecting an argument that the class shouldn't be joined following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Comcast Corp. v. Behrend.
October 11, 2013
More than 20,000 registered nurses accusing Detroit-area hospitals of conspiring to suppress their wages urged the Sixth Circuit on Friday to not review class certification in the antitrust case, despite the defendant's "strained" comparison to the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Comcast Corp. decision.
September 18, 2013
Some 20,000 registered nurses who allege Detroit-area hospitals colluded to suppress their wages may pursue their remaining antitrust claims against the Detroit Medical Center, a Michigan federal judge ruled last week.
April 03, 2013
Trinity Health Corp. has agreed to pay more than $5.1 million to settle antitrust allegations that it conspired with other Detroit-area hospitals to suppress the wages of a putative class of registered nurses, according to an agreement filed Tuesday in Michigan federal court.
March 25, 2013
Henry Ford Health System has agreed to pay more than $8.4 million to resolve putative class allegations that it conspired with other Detroit-area hospitals to suppress the wages of registered nurses, according to documents filed Friday in Michigan federal court.
June 22, 2012
Registered nurses alleging that hospitals in the Detroit area conspired to keep their wages down asked a Michigan federal court Friday to sign off on a $2 million settlement that will end their class allegations against Mount Clemens General Hospital Inc.
March 22, 2012
A Michigan federal judge on Thursday trimmed a putative class action launched by nurses who claim they were underpaid by hundreds of millions of dollars because several hospital systems conspired to depress their wages, finding the plaintiffs failed to prove the hospitals conspired.