{"id":4166,"date":"2025-02-13T23:22:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T23:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/disqualification-row-emerges-in-2-8b-blue-cross-settlement-as-opt-out-deadline-approaches\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T23:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T23:22:51","slug":"disqualification-row-emerges-in-2-8b-blue-cross-settlement-as-opt-out-deadline-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/disqualification-row-emerges-in-2-8b-blue-cross-settlement-as-opt-out-deadline-approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Disqualification Row Emerges in $2.8B Blue Cross Settlement as Opt-Out Deadline Approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/2024\/10\/21\/2-8b-antitrust-settlement-will-have-long-term-impacts-on-insurance-industry-say-attorneys-behind-accord\/\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">$2.8 billion antitrust settlement<\/a> proposed between health care providers and Blue Cross Blue Shield has encountered a new hurdle as co-lead counsel attempts to disqualify plaintiffs&#8217; attorneys with alleged conflicts of interest. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>Providers currently face a March 4 deadline for deciding whether to stay in the agreement, which was poised to end a 12-year litigation over insurance price fixing, or opt out and sue Blue Cross Blue Shield on their own. However, boutique health care law firm and co-lead counsel in the case Whatley Kallas filed motions to prevent Zuckerman Spaeder and Polsinelli Law Firm from soliciting health care providers looking to opt out of the settlement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A $2.8 billion antitrust settlement proposed between health care providers and Blue Cross Blue Shield has encountered a new hurdle as co-lead counsel attempts to disqualify plaintiffs&#8217; attorneys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4632,640,1036,4633,2317,487,4631,4634,4056,399],"class_list":["post-4166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-2-8b","tag-approaches","tag-blue","tag-cross","tag-deadline","tag-disqualification","tag-emerges","tag-optout","tag-row","tag-settlement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}