March 08, 2023
Home Depot and others who are objecting to a $2.67 billion settlement with Blue Cross Blue Shield will only have to post a $5,000 bond in order to appeal the court's order, a far cry from the $113 million that the judge was originally asked to approve.
August 09, 2022
An Alabama federal judge awarded $626.6 million in attorney fees and another $40.9 million in costs on Tuesday to Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, Hausfeld LLP and other lawyers who scored a $2.67 billion class award for subscribers in multidistrict litigation against Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers.
May 16, 2022
Health care providers told an Alabama federal court overseeing long-running multidistrict litigation alleging antitrust violations against Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers that a recent Ninth Circuit ruling supports their claim that group boycott allegations waged against BCBS plaintiffs can be judged under a per se standard of review.
February 17, 2022
An Alabama federal judge culled some health care providers Wednesday from the roster of plaintiffs suing certain Blue Cross Blue Shield network members for allegedly anti-competitively divvying up the U.S. insurance market, finding the doctors and physician practices cannot get around a settlement from an earlier lawsuit.
October 27, 2021
An Alabama federal judge said Wednesday that he was unlikely to shift the claims administration process for the $2.67 billion deal resolving subscriber antitrust claims against the Blue Cross Blue Shield network in the way suggested by the U.S. Department of Labor to protect health plans.
October 20, 2021
The U.S. Department of Labor urged an Alabama federal judge Tuesday to force a partial do-over of the $2.67 billion deal resolving subscriber antitrust claims against the Blue Cross Blue Shield network, arguing the settlement improperly excludes health plans from receiving payouts.
September 07, 2021
Blue Cross Blue Shield says the government shouldn't worry that the insurance giant's planned $2.67 billion deal to resolve subscribers' antitrust claims in Alabama federal court could lead employers to mishandle assets in their workers' health plans.
July 28, 2021
Health care providers accusing Blue Cross Blue Shield organizations of thwarting competition by carving up the national market into service areas and refusing to compete against each other are asking an Alabama federal court to revisit the insurers' argument that it is a single entity.
July 23, 2021
Health care providers suing Blue Cross in a massive antitrust case cannot justify billions in damages because they are relying on a merely speculative "snowball" effect of conduct stretching back decades, the insurance giant told an Alabama federal judge Friday.
December 01, 2020
Citing "historic and substantial" structural reform terms and a massive, $2.67 billion class damage award, a federal judge in Alabama granted preliminary approval late Monday to a settlement of claims that the nation's Blue Cross plans conspired for years to thwart competition nationwide.