In re Outpatient Medical Center Employee Antitrust Litigation

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.