Have your french fries become more expensive? A “potato cartel” of leading food producers is to blame, five new federal lawsuits contend. Cavendish Farms, Lamb Weston, McCain Foods and the J.R ...

The case is unusual in that, unlike a typical price-fixing cartel, the landlords used RealPage's algorithms to dramatically improve their ability to engage in price-fixing.

Price-fixing, in other words, has entered the algorithmic age, but the laws designed to prevent it have not kept up. Powers said he believes existing antitrust laws cover algorithmic collusion ...

A 'cartel' for insurers? AdventHealth sues MultiPlan over price fixing. Hospital system AdventHealth has filed a lawsuit against MultiPlan, alleging the cost-management firm has systematically ...

In theory, price fixing served the greater good. Admissions officers argued that by putting a ceiling on need-based aid, there was more money to go around for deserving students who could not ...

The Johns Hopkins University was named in a class-action lawsuit accusing it and other top U.S. universities of acting as a “cartel” to limit the amount of financial aid available to students ...

In its May 8 filing, CHS alleged, “MultiPlan has created, and continues to orchestrate, an ongoing cartel agreement with competing health insurance companies throughout the United States to bilk ...

The lawsuit, which repeatedly refers to a "MultiPlan Cartel" throughout, describes the alleged price-fixing as a "hub-and-spoke conspiracy" where MultiPlan serves as the hub and insurance ...

Could Elite Universities Earn PhDs in Price Fixing? The latest accusations that schools colluded to limit financial aid have roots reaching back to the 1950s. February 13, 2024 at 7:00 AM EST ...

Price fixing. In a context the price to be fixed is agreed upon at the outset between the parties (at a meeting or in communications where future prices are discussed) and persists without further ...