In re Outpatient Medical Center Employee Antitrust Litigation

  1. October 19, 2021

    UnitedHealth Unit Wants Out Of Surgical No-Poach Suits

    In a case alleging surgery centers conspired not to hire each other's senior employees, a UnitedHealth Group unit told an Illinois federal judge she shouldn't be the first to hold that a stand-alone nonsolicitation agreement is inherently anti-competitive under federal antitrust law.

  2. March 15, 2021

    Gov't Wants Surgical No-Poach Suits Iced Amid Criminal Case

    U.S. antitrust enforcers are seeking to have their criminal no-poaching case against a UnitedHealth Group surgical unit wrap up before private litigants get a stab at proposed class actions pending against the medical provider in Illinois federal court.

  3. January 20, 2021

    UnitedHealth Unit Draws 1st Follow-On No-Poach Class Action

    The first private follow-on to the U.S. Department of Justice's criminal antitrust case against UnitedHealth Group unit Surgical Care Affiliates LLC has been filed in Illinois federal court as a class action seeking to represent the "hundreds, if not thousands," of senior-level employees impacted by Surgical Care's alleged agreements with competitors not to hire each other's employees.