In Re Blue Cross Blue Shield Antitrust Litigation MDL 2406
Case Number:
2:13-cv-20000
Court:
Nature of Suit:
Multi Party Litigation:
Class Action
Judge:
Firms
- Baker Botts
- Honigman LLP
- Dentons
- Foley & Lardner
- Kirkland & Ellis
- Serkland Law Firm
- Shelby Roden LLC
- Simons & Associates Law
- Hill Hill Carter Franco Cole & Black
- Reinhardt Wendorf
- Lanier Ford
- Kozyak Tropin
- Rushton Stakely
- The McKay Firm
- Sharp Law LLP
- Cory Watson Attorneys
- Axinn Veltrop
- Brunini Grantham
- Gustafson Gluek
- Penn & Seaborn
- Adams & Reese
- Eberle Berlin Kading Turnbow & McKlveen
- Ausman Law Firm
- Yuhl Carr
- Gentle Turner
- Levin Papantonio
- Wallace Jordan
- Murray Law Firm LLC
- Dominick Feld
- Chapman Lewis & Swan
- Leak Douglas
- Means Gillis
- Meierhenry Sargent
- Lockridge Grindal
- Law Offices of Stephen M. Hansen
- Provosty & Gankendorff
- Crowe & Dunlevy
- Podhurst Orseck
- Cole Schotz
- Gray & Associates LLC
- Phillips Lytle
- Pendley Baudin
- Bondurant Mixson
- Hogan Lovells
- Beck Amsden
- Giarmarco Mullins
- Eimer Stahl
- Gray & White
- Guin Stokes
- Quinn Connor Weaver
- King & Spalding
- Maynard Nexsen
- Bainbridge Mims
- Baker Wotring
- Methvin Terrell
- White Arnold & Dowd
- Cusimano Roberts
- Campbell Partners
- Battle & Winn
- Polsinelli PC
- Solberg Stewart
- Hart Law LLC
- Pittman Firm
- Hunton Andrews
- Taylor Porter
- Cooper & Kirk
- Benton & Centeno
- Eyster Key
- Archie Lamb & Associates
- Stone & Magnanini
- Hickey & Evans
- Morris King & Hodge
- Gurley Law
- Lynch Carpenter
- Pittman Dutton
- Gray & Associates
- Brooks Pierce
- Riley & Jackson
- Zuckerman Spaeder
- Williams & Connolly
- Bodman PLC
- Reichard & Escalera
- Reich & Binstock
- Strom Law Firm
- Dampier Law Firm
- Calcaterra Pollack
- Horn Aylward
- Lightfoot Franklin
- Pomerantz LLP
- Reed Smith
- NastLaw
- Faegre Drinker
- Cozen O'Connor
- Mooney Green
- Nelson Mullins
- Shaheen & Gordon
- BoiesBattin
- Bronster Fujichaku
- Holland & Knight
- O'Melveny & Myers
- Porterfield Harper
- Rosen Harwood
- Bailey & Glasser
- Wiggins Childs
- McKool Smith
- Ellis Head
- Butler Prather
- Meshbesher & Spence
- Armbrecht Jackson
- Jinks Crow
- RichardsonClement PC
- Scott&Scott
- Stites & Harbison
- John D. Saxon PC
- Cafferty Clobes
- Saeed & Little
- Hausfeld LLP
- Greenberg Traurig
- Jones & Swartz
- Gibson Dunn
- Carroll Warren
- Starnes Davis
- Cravath Swaine
- CR Legal Team
- Ogletree Deakins
- Paul Weiss
- Spotswood Sansom
- Capell & Howard
- Wachtell Lipton
- Wandro Kanne
- Rumberger Kirk
- Shamoun & Norman
- Watkins & Eager
- Liskow & Lewis
- Quinn Emanuel
- Miller & Chevalier
- Beasley Allen
- Boies Schiller
- Crowell & Moring
- Butler Snow LLP
- Whatley Kallas
- Balch & Bingham
- Whitfield Bryson
- Sommers Schwartz
- Cohen Milstein
- Kapke Willerth
- Wojtalewicz Law Firm
- Schlichter Bogard
- Sperling Kenny
- Burr & Forman
- Wright Lindsey
- Wyatt Tarrant
- Duane Morris
- Fox Rothschild
- Kilpatrick Townsend
- Alston & Bird
- Foote Mielke
- Redgrave LLP
- Baker Donelson
- Bradley Arant
- A&O Shearman
- Grant & Eisenhofer
- White & Case
Companies
- Kimberly-Clark Corp.
- The Home Depot Inc.
- Prime Therapeutics LLC
- Lincoln National Corp.
- Halliburton Co.
- Tyson Foods Inc.
- Prime Healthcare Services Inc.
- Nestle SA
- Sterling Jewelers Inc.
- Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.
- Health Care Service Corp.
- Excellus BlueCross BlueShield
- Darling Ingredients Inc.
- Premera Blue Cross
- Humana Inc.
- The Cigna Group
- Highmark Capital Management Inc.
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Inc.
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota
- Perdue Farms Inc.
- RTX Corp.
- UnitedHealth Group Inc.
- PG&E Corp.
- Sutter Health
- HealthNow New York Inc.
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
- United Food & Commercial Workers International Union
- Kay Jewelers
- Aetna Inc.
- Adventist Health System Inc.
- Blue Cross of Idaho Health Service
- ServisFirst Bancshares Inc.
- Blue Shield of California
- Starbucks Corp.
- Wells Fargo & Co.
- Rite Aid Corp.
- Tenet Healthcare Corp.
- BlueCross BlueShield of Arizona Inc.
- Iqvia Holdings Inc.
Government Agencies
Sectors & Industries:
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Blue Cross Blue Shield asked an Alabama federal judge on Friday to approve a $2.8 billion antitrust settlement with hospitals and other healthcare providers over its territorial policies, arguing that recent objections to the deal's release provision are meritless and the settlement preserves "key, procompetitive features" of the insurance system.
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March 26, 2025
BCBS Settlement Opt-Outs Ordered To Disclose Funding Deals
Four law firms representing hospitals that opted out of the landmark $2.8 billion Blue Cross Blue Shield antitrust settlement must disclose whether their clients were motivated by a "quick payment" from litigation funders, an Alabama federal judge ordered Tuesday.
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March 05, 2025
BCBS Hit With New Antitrust Suits By $2.8B Deal Opt-Outs
Dozens of hospitals and healthcare systems that opted out of a landmark $2.8 billion Blue Cross Blue Shield antitrust settlement filed fresh Sherman Act lawsuits against the insurance entities in Pennsylvania, California and Illinois federal courts Tuesday, accusing them of colluding to restrict competition for the purchase of healthcare services.
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February 27, 2025
Polsinelli Blocked From Repping BCBS Settlement Opt-Outs
An Alabama federal judge has disqualified Polsinelli PC from representing hospitals that opt out of a landmark $2.8 billion Blue Cross Blue Shield antitrust settlement, even as other firms are licking their lips at the prospect of a multibillion-dollar bonanza of opt-out litigation.
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December 05, 2024
Providers' $2.8B BCBS Antitrust Deal Gets Judge's Initial OK
An Alabama federal judge has given his initial approval for a $2.8 billion settlement inked between Blue Cross Blue Shield Association and a proposed class of medical providers in a more than 12-year-old antitrust case targeting association rules.
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November 14, 2024
Emergency Medical Providers Oppose $2.8B BCBS Deal
A group of emergency clinic medical providers objected to the $2.8 billion settlement a broader class of medical providers reached with the Blue Cross Blue Shield network of insurers last month, as attorneys for the overall class boasted that the settlement would transform the insurers and bring historic payouts.
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October 15, 2024
'Extraordinary' Blue Cross Deal Includes $2.8B Payout
The Blue Cross Blue Shield network will shell out $2.8 billion and invest "hundreds of millions" more overhauling its claims systems to soften barriers between members, in a massive antitrust settlement disclosed Monday in Alabama federal court under which healthcare providers' counsel stands to reap up to $700 million.
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March 08, 2023
Only Small Bond Needed For $2B BCBS Deal Objections
Home Depot and others who are objecting to a $2.67 billion settlement with Blue Cross Blue Shield will only have to post a $5,000 bond in order to appeal the court's order, a far cry from the $113 million that the judge was originally asked to approve.
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August 09, 2022
Boies Schiller, Hausfeld Score $627M In Fees In BCBS MDL
An Alabama federal judge awarded $626.6 million in attorney fees and another $40.9 million in costs on Tuesday to Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, Hausfeld LLP and other lawyers who scored a $2.67 billion class award for subscribers in multidistrict litigation against Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers.
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May 16, 2022
Providers Say 9th Circ. Ruling Helps BCBS Antitrust Case
Health care providers told an Alabama federal court overseeing long-running multidistrict litigation alleging antitrust violations against Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers that a recent Ninth Circuit ruling supports their claim that group boycott allegations waged against BCBS plaintiffs can be judged under a per se standard of review.