November 16, 2020
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.
November 13, 2020
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.
October 31, 2020
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.
April 17, 2019
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.
March 19, 2019
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.
March 14, 2019
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.
January 18, 2019
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.
December 12, 2018
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.
October 18, 2018
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.
June 13, 2018
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.