In re Outpatient Medical Center Employee Antitrust Litigation

  1. December 05, 2023

    Parties In Healthcare Antitrust Suit Told To List Depo Targets

    An Illinois federal court on Tuesday ordered DaVita Inc., a UnitedHealth Group unit and two of the unit's former senior employees to provide a list of people they seek to depose in an antitrust suit accusing the healthcare companies of an anti-competitive no-poach scheme.

  2. September 06, 2023

    'Tone It Down,' UnitedHealth Unit, No-Poach Plaintiffs Told

    An Illinois federal magistrate judge called for both sides to ease off on contentious briefing rhetoric Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing UnitedHealth Group unit Surgical Care Affiliates LLC and DaVita of an anti-competitive agreement limiting the recruitment and hiring of senior workers between them.

  3. June 27, 2023

    UnitedHealth Unit Ordered To Give No-Poach Docs To Workers

    An Illinois federal magistrate judge ordered UnitedHealth Group unit Surgical Care Affiliates LLC to turn over a huge amount of information Monday to former senior workers pursuing a proposed no-poach class action against the company and DaVita, rejecting most arguments against the sought discovery.

  4. May 12, 2023

    Ex-Workers Denied DaVita Grand Jury Docs For Now

    An Illinois federal judge has ruled that workers suing dialysis giant DaVita and other health care companies must go to Colorado to seek documents from federal prosecutors' failed antitrust case against DaVita for use in their own suit against their former employer.

  5. March 27, 2023

    Ex-Health Workers Seek DOJ's DaVita Docs In No-Poach Suit

    The U.S. Department of Justice should be forced to turn over documents from its failed antitrust case against DaVita, according to a group of former health workers suing the dialysis giant and other health providers, arguing the government's criminal case centered on the same no-poach agreements alleged in their suit.

  6. September 26, 2022

    DaVita Can't Dodge No-Poach Claims, Ill. Judge Says

    An Illinois federal judge ruled Monday that DaVita and other health care providers can't dodge claims that they instituted no-poach agreements with competitors to suppress employees' wages, but dismissed UnitedHealth Group from the litigation after finding that there was no allegation that the company was involved in the antitrust agreements.

  7. July 27, 2022

    DOJ Says McDonald's No-Poach Win Inapplicable To DaVita

    DaVita and other health care providers can't leverage McDonald's victory over a lawsuit attacking no-poach provisions in its previous franchise agreements to prevail in private litigation brought against them, the U.S. Department of Justice said in its latest intervention in the Illinois federal court case.

  8. June 21, 2022

    DaVita Gets All Clear To Return No-Poach Docs

    An Illinois federal judge gave DaVita the permission it needed Monday to dispose of confidential documents produced by the U.S. Department of Justice in its failed criminal no-poach case, deeming it sufficient for follow-on civil plaintiffs that the company will return what DOJ gave it.

  9. June 13, 2022

    DaVita, Ex-CEO Need Civil Case OK To Destroy Criminal Docs

    Kidney dialysis company DaVita Inc. and its former chief executive have asked an Illinois federal judge for a protective order requiring the government to preserve information from its criminal antitrust case now being sought in civil no-poach litigation, citing obligations they have to destroy their copies of the documents.

  10. February 08, 2022

    DOJ Wants To Build On DaVita Win In No-Poach Cases

    Fresh off a Colorado federal judge's refusal to toss criminal antitrust charges alleging that dialysis giant DaVita and its former CEO illegally colluded with competitors by agreeing not to recruit one another's employees, federal prosecutors are telling other courts that the decision bolsters criminal charges in other no-poach cases.