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Bradley A. Chicoine, Dr. Bradley A. Chicoine, D.C., P.C., Mark A. Niles, Niles Chiropractic, Inc., Rod R. Rebarcak, and Ben Winecoff, on Behalf of Themselves and Those Like Situated v. Wellmark, Inc. D/B/A Wellmark Blue Cross A
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided April 21, 2017No. 16–0364PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HECHT, Justice.
Thirteen Iowa chiropractors filed this class-action lawsuit against Iowa’s largest health insurer alleging it conspired with nonparty competitors to fix prices, allocate markets, and engage in other anticompeti-tive conduct in Iowa in violation of the Iowa Competition Law. See Iowa Code ch. 558 (2015). The Iowa chiropractors allege that this anticompetitive conduct has had the. purpose and effect of driving down chiropractor reimbursements to discrimi-natorily low levels.
On the defendants’ motion, and over the plaintiffs’ objection, the district court stayed the case in its…
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- Comes v. Microsoft Corp.Supreme Court of Iowa · 2002
- Steven A. Mueller, Bradley J. Brown, Mark A. Kruse, Kevin D. Miller, and Larry E. Phipps, on Behalf of Themselves and Those Like Situated v. Wellmark, Inc. D/B/A Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa, an Iowa Corporation and Wellmark Health Plan of Iowa, Inc., an Iowa CorporationSupreme Court of Iowa · 2012
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