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May 2009May 18, 2009 Press Release
Washington, DC – May 18, 2009 – Hausfeld LLP, along with several other firms, today announced it has filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey on behalf of Warren General Hospital and a Class of direct purchasers of blood reagents and/or related medical equipment (collectively “Blood Reagents”).
The complaint alleges that defendants Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc., Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems, Inc., and Immucor, Inc. (collectively “Defendants”) conspired, combined and contracted to fix, raise, maintain and stabilize prices at which Blood Reagents would be sold in the United States in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act. As a result of defendants’ unlawful conduct, plaintiff and the other members of the proposed Class paid artificially inflated prices that exceeded the amount they would have paid if a competitive market had determined prices for Blood Reagents.
Defendants are developers, manufacturers, and distributors of Blood Reagents used primarily by hospitals, clinical laboratories and blood banks in a number of tests performed to detect and identify certain properties of the cell and serum components of human blood prior to blood transfusion. The tests involved are essential to patient safety, as well as the safety of the nation’s blood supply. The Defendants collectively control the vast majority of the Blood Reagents market in the United States and sell hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Blood Reagents every year.
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Hausfeld LLP, based in Washington, DC, is a global plaintiffs’ law firm providing litigation services in the areas of consumer fraud, antitrust/competition law, human rights violations, product liability, civil rights, and environmental law. the firm has operations in Washington, D.C., New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and London. For additional information about Hausfeld LLP and its services, please visit http://www.hausfeldllp.com.
Practice Areas: Antitrust / Competition
Supporting Documents
» Class Action Complaint
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