In re: Northshore University HealthSystem Antitrust Litigation

  1. July 24, 2012

    Chicago Hospitals Delaying Antitrust Suit, Patients Say

    Patients of Chicago's NorthShore University HealthSystem's four hospitals on Monday accused the facilities of submitting a specious expert report in an attempt to improperly delay class certification in the patients' antitrust suit accusing the hospitals of conspiring to overcharge patients after a 2000 merger.

  2. April 05, 2012

    Class Cert. Bid Revived In Chicago Hospital Antitrust Case

    Patients of NorthShore University HealthSystem's hospitals on Wednesday renewed a bid for class status in their antitrust case over a 2000 merger, four months after the Seventh Circuit ruled that proof of price uniformity was not needed for class certification.

  3. April 14, 2010

    Ill. Patients Appeal Denied Antitrust Class Cert. Bid

    Patients of Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Corp.'s hospitals are appealing a district court's rejection of its class certification bid in an antitrust suit accusing the Chicago-based health care network of abusing its monopoly power after it merged with another suburban Chicago hospital in 2000.