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
28:1331 Fed. Question
Judge:
Firms
- Adams & Reese
- A&O Shearman
- Armbrecht Jackson
- Ausman Law Firm
- Axinn Veltrop
- Bailey & Glasser
- Bainbridge Mims
- Baker Donelson
- Baker Wotring
- Balch & Bingham
- Beasley Allen
- Beck Amsden
- Bodman PLC
- BoiesBattin
- Boies Schiller
- Bronster Fujichaku
- Brooks Pierce
- Brunini Grantham
- Burr & Forman
- Butler Prather
- Butler Snow LLP
- Cafferty Clobes
- Calcaterra Pollack
- Campbell Partners
- Carroll Warren
- Chapman Lewis & Swan
- Cohen Milstein
- Cooper & Kirk
- Cory Watson Attorneys
- Cozen O'Connor
- Cravath Swaine
- CR Legal Team
- Crowe & Dunlevy
- Crowell & Moring
- Cusimano Roberts
- Dampier Law Firm
- Dominick Feld
- Eberle Berlin Kading Turnbow & McKlveen
- Ellis Head
- Eyster Key
- Faegre Drinker
- Foley & Lardner
- Foote Mielke
- Fox Rothschild
- Gentle Turner
- Giarmarco Mullins
- Glast Phillips
- Grant & Eisenhofer
- Gray & White
- Greenberg Traurig
- Guin Stokes
- Gurley Law
- Gustafson Gluek
- Hart Law LLC
- Hausfeld LLP
- Hickey & Evans
- Hill Hill Carter
- Hogan Lovells
- Holland & Knight
- Honigman LLP
- Horn Aylward
- Hunton Andrews
- Jinks Crow
- John D. Saxon PC
- Jones & Swartz
- Kapke Willerth
- Kilpatrick Townsend
- Kirkland & Ellis
- Kozyak Tropin
- Lane Powell
- Law Offices of Stephen M. Hansen
- Levin Papantonio
- Lightfoot Franklin
- Liskow & Lewis
- Lockridge Grindal
- Lynch Carpenter
- Maynard Nexsen
- Means Gillis
- Meierhenry Sargent
- Meshbesher & Spence
- Methvin Terrell
- Miller & Chevalier
- Mooney Green
- Morris King & Hodge
- Murray Law Firm
- NastLaw
- Nelson Mullins
- O'Melveny & Myers
- Paul Weiss
- Pendley Baudin
- Penn & Seaborn
- Phillips Lytle
- Pittman Dutton
- Pittman Firm
- Podhurst Orseck
- Pomerantz LLP
- Provosty & Gankendorff
- Quinn Connor Weaver
- Quinn Emanuel
- Redgrave LLP
- Reed Smith
- Reichard & Escalera
- Reich & Binstock
- Reinhardt Wendorf
- RichardsonClement PC
- Riley & Jackson
- Saeed & Little
- Schlichter Bogard
- Serkland Law Firm
- Shaheen & Gordon
- Shamoun & Norman
- Sharp Law LLP
- Shelby Roden LLC
- Simons & Associates Law
- Solberg Stewart
- Sommers Schwartz
- Spotswood Sansom
- Stites & Harbison
- Stone & Magnanini
- Strom Law Firm
- Taylor Porter
- The McKay Firm
- Wallace Jordan
- Whatley Kallas
- White Arnold & Dowd
- White & Case
- Whitfield Bryson
- Wiggins Childs
- Wojtalewicz Law Firm
- Wright Lindsey
- Wyatt Tarrant
- Yuhl Carr
- Zuckerman Spaeder
Companies
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Inc.
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota
- Blue Cross of Idaho Health Service
- Blue Shield of California
- Excellus BlueCross BlueShield
- Health Care Service Corp.
- HealthNow New York Inc.
- Premera Blue Cross
Government Agencies
Sectors & Industries:
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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.
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February 17, 2022
Old Settlements Doom Some Doctors' BCBS Antitrust Claims
An Alabama federal judge culled some health care providers Wednesday from the roster of plaintiffs suing certain Blue Cross Blue Shield network members for allegedly anti-competitively divvying up the U.S. insurance market, finding the doctors and physician practices cannot get around a settlement from an earlier lawsuit.
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October 27, 2021
Judge Suggests BCBS Members Steer Antitrust Claim Funds
An Alabama federal judge said Wednesday that he was unlikely to shift the claims administration process for the $2.67 billion deal resolving subscriber antitrust claims against the Blue Cross Blue Shield network in the way suggested by the U.S. Department of Labor to protect health plans.
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October 20, 2021
DOL Says $2.7B BCBS Deal Puts Employers Over ERISA Plans
The U.S. Department of Labor urged an Alabama federal judge Tuesday to force a partial do-over of the $2.67 billion deal resolving subscriber antitrust claims against the Blue Cross Blue Shield network, arguing the settlement improperly excludes health plans from receiving payouts.
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September 07, 2021
Don't Fret Over Antitrust Deal's ERISA Impact, BCBS Says
Blue Cross Blue Shield says the government shouldn't worry that the insurance giant's planned $2.67 billion deal to resolve subscribers' antitrust claims in Alabama federal court could lead employers to mishandle assets in their workers' health plans.
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July 28, 2021
Providers Say BCBS Can't Argue It's A Single Entity
Health care providers accusing Blue Cross Blue Shield organizations of thwarting competition by carving up the national market into service areas and refusing to compete against each otherĀ are asking an Alabama federal court to revisit the insurers' argument that it is a single entity.
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July 23, 2021
BCBS Calls Providers' Antitrust Damage Claims 'Speculative'
Health care providers suing Blue Cross in a massive antitrust case cannot justify billions in damages because they are relying on a merely speculative "snowball" effect of conduct stretching back decades, the insurance giant told an Alabama federal judge Friday.
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December 01, 2020
Ala. Judge Gives Initial OK To $2.67B BCBS Antitrust Deal
Citing "historic and substantial" structural reform terms and a massive, $2.67 billion class damage award, a federal judge in Alabama granted preliminary approval late Monday to a settlement of claims that the nation's Blue Cross plans conspired for years to thwart competition nationwide.