Collusion and Price Fixing

Home City Bagged Ice Antitrust Class Action Settlement

The plaintiffs in this lawsuit allege that Home City Ice Company and other competitors engaged in an antitrust scheme to fix and raise the price of packaged bags of ice.  Read more

Qualcomm Broadband Processor Antitrust Class Action Lawsuit

This class action lawsuit claims that Qualcomm maintained a monopoly in baseband processors by engaging in illegal patent, contract, licensing, and dealing practices.  Read more

Dow Chemical Urethane Antitrust Class Action Settlement

The plaintiffs in this lawsuit allege that Dow unlawfully agreed to fix, raise, maintain or stabilize the prices of Polyether Polyol Products sold in the United States and its territories during the period from January 1, 1999 through December 31, 2004 in violation of the federal antitrust laws.  Read more

Econazole Fougara Antitrust Class Action Lawsuit

This lawsuit claims that Fougera engaged in a conspiracy to fix, raise, maintain, and stabilize the prices of their Econazole antifungal cream by making agreements with generic manufacturers to keep prices high.  Read more

Medical Lab Blood Testing Investigation

            An ongoing legal investigation is questioning the practices of many lab companies and their charging practices.  Many insurance companies have agreements with labs that they will only be charged a discounted rate for medical lab fees.  Consumers that do not have insurance or who’s insurance is denied do not  Read more

Fiat Chrysler VGP Dealership Lawsuit

The plaintiffs in this lawsuit allege that Fiat Chrysler (FCA) has engaged in and continues to engage in a performance driving program dubbed “Volume Growth Program” (VGP) in which dealers that sell higher volumes of vehicles can attain a VGP status.  The VGP program provides dealerships subsidies on each and every new motor vehicles sale  Read more

1-800 Contacts Google Search Antitrust Lawsuit

This lawsuit alleges that 1-800 Contacts engaged in price fixing and collusion by preventing online competition in the market for contact-lenses.  This was done by entering into agreements with competitors that restricted bidding on advertising on Google by keywords and forcing competitors to advertise based on “negative” key words.  These actions violate the Sherman Antitrust  Read more

UPMC Highmark Small Group Health Insurance Class Action Settlement

The plaintiffs in this lawsuit allege that since 2002, UPMC and Highmark have participated in a conspiracy to reduce competition in the markets for health insurance and certain health care services in Western Pennsylvania in violation of federal antitrust laws. The lawsuit claims this behavior: 1) prevented certain other health care providers and health insurance  Read more

Freight Forwarding Antitrust Class Action Settlement

The plaintiffs in this lawsuit allege that the companies (listed below) conspired, in violation of antitrust laws, to fix the prices for freight forwarding services during certain time periods. The Plaintiffs claim that the companies’ conspiracies were worldwide, including on shipping routes between the United States and China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, and the United  Read more

Milk Products Antitrust Class Action Settlement

The plaintiffs in this lawsuit allege a nationwide conspiracy by CWT and its members to limit the production of raw farm milk by prematurely slaughtering cows, in order to illegally increase the price of milk and other fresh milk products.   Read more