October 06, 2025
Two hospitals will pay a combined total of $28.5 million to approximately 12,000 healthcare workers who alleged the defendants illegally agreed not to poach each other's doctors and nurses, which suppressed wages and job mobility opportunities in the area, according to a preliminary approval motion filed Friday in Pennsylvania federal court.
November 17, 2021
A Pennsylvania federal judge won't let two rival hospitals escape antitrust claims in their workers' revised suit over a no-poach pact and suppressed wages, ruling that proof of an anti-recruitment email is enough to keep the suit alive.
March 11, 2021
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday appointed Berger Montague and Cotchett Pitre & McCarthy LLP as interim counsel co-leading a pair of consolidated proposed antitrust class actions claiming rival hospitals illegally agreed not to poach each other's doctors and nurses, suppressing health care professionals' wages in the area.
February 04, 2021
Two rival hospitals in central Pennsylvania hatched an illegal agreement not to poach each other's doctors and nurses, which then suppressed health care professionals' wages in the area, according to a proposed class action filed Wednesday in Keystone State federal court.