Sidibe v. Sutter Health

  1. April 14, 2021

    Sutter Destroyed 192 Evidence Boxes, Antitrust Class Says

    A class of insurance buyers has moved for sanctions against Sutter Health in California federal court, accusing the company of purposely destroying 192 boxes of "highly relevant" evidence subject to a litigation hold in their lawsuit seeking $411 million over the health provider's allegedly anti-competitive practices.

  2. March 10, 2021

    Sutter Health Must Face Trial In Insurance Buyers' $411M Suit

    Sutter Health will have to face claims that the hospital chain cost health insurance buyers upward of $411 million by forcing insurance companies to contract with all of its facilities in order to work with any specific one after a California federal court refused to kill the suit.

  3. October 26, 2020

    Insurance Buyers Score Small Win In $411M Sutter Health Suit

    Health insurance buyers have convinced a California federal court to grant them an incremental win in their $411 million suit accusing hospital chain Sutter Health of costing them money by forcing insurance companies to contract with all of its facilities in order to work with any specific one.

  4. October 16, 2020

    9th Circ. Won't Hear Sutter Health's Appeal Of Class Cert.

    The Ninth Circuit summarily refused on Friday to let Sutter Health appeal certification of a damages class of health insurance plan purchasers seeking $411 million on claims they overpaid because the hospital chain violated antitrust laws.

  5. July 31, 2020

    Sutter Health Indirect Purchasers Win Cert. In $411M Suit

    A California federal judge has certified a damages class of health insurance plan purchasers seeking $489 million from Sutter Health on claims they overpaid because the hospital chain violated antitrust laws, saying the plaintiffs have shown damages can be calculated on a classwide basis.

  6. July 02, 2020

    Sutter Health Indirect Purchasers Vie For Cert. In $489M Suit

    Health insurance plan purchasers seeking $489 million from Sutter Health on claims they overpaid because the hospital chain violated antitrust laws told a California federal judge during a hearing Thursday that their renewed class certification bid isn't doomed by a dispute over calculating damages.

  7. October 21, 2019

    Insurance Customers To Try Again On Sutter Damages Class

    Insurance customers will take another stab next month at certifying a damages class against Sutter Health, lawyers for the customers said Monday after a California federal judge granted only partial certification in a decision unsealed late last week.

  8. June 20, 2014

    Sutter Monopoly Suit Fails To Nail Down Geographic Market

    A California federal judge on Friday threw out a putative class action accusing Sutter Health of conspiring to monopolize medical services in Northern California, ruling that the plaintiffs failed to show that a proposed geographic market Sutter supposedly controls was plausible.

  9. March 06, 2014

    Sutter Health Rips Monopoly Suit's Geographic Market Theory

    Sutter Health urged a California federal judge on Thursday to throw out a proposed class action accusing the health network of conspiring to monopolize medical services in Northern California, arguing that the plaintiffs' evidence outlining the geographic market Sutter supposedly controls is implausible.

  10. June 04, 2013

    Sutter Health Beats Antitrust Suit Over Health Plan Deals

    A California federal judge on Monday tossed allegations that Sutter Health conspired to maintain a stranglehold over medical services in northern California, finding the putative class that brought the antitrust suit did not adequately back claims that the health system's conduct resulted in a monopoly.