In re DENTAL SUPPLIES ANTITRUST LITIGATION

  1. June 24, 2019

    Dentists Extract $80M From Supply Cos. In Antitrust Deal

    A Brooklyn federal judge on Monday approved an $80 million cash settlement in a case in which a class of 200,000 dentists accused the country's biggest dental supply companies of colluding to fix prices on crowns, anesthetic and more.

  2. August 30, 2018

    Dentists Get $80M From Supply Cos. To End Collusion Case

    A group of dentists has tentatively reached an $80 million settlement in a proposed class action accusing the country's biggest dental supply companies of colluding to fix prices on crowns, numbing agents, X-ray accessories and other products, the parties announced on Thursday.

  3. September 21, 2017

    Dental Supply Co. Escapes Price-Fixing Claims In NY

    Burkhart Dental Supply Co. on Wednesday avoided a suit brought by a proposed class of dentists alleging it and three other dental supply companies engaged in a price-fixing conspiracy, with a New York federal judge saying the company lacked enough of a connection to the state to be sued there.

  4. February 17, 2017

    Dentists Say Small Supplier Joined Price-Fixing Conspiracy

    A potential class of dentists on Friday shot back against arguments from a dental supplies company that it was too small to join three large suppliers in a nationwide price-fixing conspiracy, arguing in New York federal court that the allegations against the smaller company are the "core of the overarching conspiracy."

  5. January 17, 2017

    Dental Supplies Co. Wants Out Of Price-Fixing Class Action

    A regional dental supplies company has told a New York federal judge that it’s too small to have participated in an alleged nationwide price-fixing conspiracy and that the dentists who filed the proposed class action waited too long to add the company to the lawsuit.

  6. September 28, 2016

    Dentists Smiling As Price-Fixing Conspiracy Case Survives

    A New York federal judge in a ruling released Wednesday refused to dismiss a proposed class action accusing dental supply distributors of a vast price-fixing conspiracy, concluding that allegations of collusion and threats have enough bite for the time being.

  7. June 16, 2016

    Dentists Can't Call Unrelated Acts A Conspiracy, Suppliers Say

    A putative class of dentists is trying to mash together a bunch of incomparable actions and call it a nationwide antitrust conspiracy, three dental supply distributors told a New York federal court Wednesday, asking that the consolidated complaint be scrapped in its entirety.

  8. June 15, 2016

    Antitrust Complaint More Than Holds Its Own, Dentists Say

    A putative class of dentists are defending their claims of an antitrust conspiracy in New York federal court against the three largest distributors of dental supplies in the U.S., saying that their consolidated complaint should not be dismissed because it goes above and beyond what's necessary.

  9. March 03, 2016

    Dental Distributors Fire Back Against Antitrust Action

    Dental supply distributors are attacking a proposed class action in New York federal court that alleges an epic antitrust conspiracy, accusing dentists of wrongly depicting isolated actions as elements of a nationwide price-fixing scheme.

  10. January 25, 2016

    Dentists Pull Together To Sue Supply Distributors

    Dentists are drilling down on leading supply distributors with proposed class actions in New York and Texas federal courts that accuse the companies of colluding to keep prices high.