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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November 16, 2020
Ala. Judge Wary Of Second-Guessing $2.67B BCBS Deal
A federal judge in Alabama cautioned an attorney for non-consenting class members Monday about second-guessing "the tactical decisions of class counsel" in a proposed $2.67 billion multidistrict class settlement for alleged overpayments to Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurers.
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November 13, 2020
Calif., Texas Insurees Won't Say Yes To $2.67B BCBS Deal
Three insurance buyers say class members from their states were given a raw deal when the nation's Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers inked a sweeping $2.67 billion settlement aimed at ending antitrust claims they had been battling for the better part of a decade.
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October 31, 2020
BCBS Insurers Reach $2.67B Antitrust Deal In Alabama
The nation's Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers tentatively agreed late Friday to a $2.67 billion class settlement fund and sweeping anti-competitive practice reforms to settle a long-running multidistrict suit based in Alabama federal court that was filed by dozens of subscriber groups.
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April 17, 2019
BCBS Providers, Subscribers Push For Cert. In Antitrust MDL
Health care providers and insurance subscribers asked an Alabama federal judge to certify several classes in their sprawling litigation accusing the Blue Cross Blue Shield network of stifling hospital reimbursements and hiking purchasers' premiums with a scheme to divvy the market among its members.
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March 19, 2019
BCBS Providers Cite Anthem Contradictions In Del. Trial
Health care provider class attorneys on Tuesday alerted an Alabama federal judge to recent Anthem Corp. testimony in Delaware that they say contradicts Blue Cross Blue Shield Association denials that the group's rules, including nationwide limits on member revenues from "non-Blue" businesses, are anticompetitive.
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March 14, 2019
UPMC Asks Ala. Court To Let Other 'Blues' Replace Highmark
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center on Thursday urged an Alabama federal judge to let it join the multidistrict litigation against the Blue Cross Blue Shield network and let other "Blues" contract with UPMC in place of its rival, Highmark Health.
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January 18, 2019
Judge Orders Blue Cross Attys To Shape Up In Antitrust MDL
The Alabama federal judge overseeing sweeping antitrust litigation against the Blue Cross Blue Shield network has said he can no longer wait for the insurance giant's army of lawyers to marshal themselves into a more manageable group, ordering a dozen attorneys into a "Council of Twelve" to streamline a leadership plan.
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December 12, 2018
BCBS Must Face Per Se Antitrust Test, 11th Circ. Rules
Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers must face the per se legal standard that if proven says their behavior in allegedly divvying up geographic markets broke the law regardless of the impact on competition, the Eleventh Circuit said Wednesday.
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October 18, 2018
BCBS Shielded By Old Deals In Antitrust MDL, Judge Rules
Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers facing long-running multidistrict litigation over an alleged conspiracy to divvy up the market are protected by prior settlement agreements that free them from the claims, even though they never signed the deals, an Alabama federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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June 13, 2018
BCBS Can Appeal Ruling That Limits Antitrust MDL Defense
An Alabama federal judge Tuesday gave his blessing to a bid by Blue Cross Blue Shield plans facing a multidistrict antitrust suit for an immediate appeal of a ruling that bars the health insurer from arguing there were pro-competitive benefits from alleged collaboration between the plans.