Sutter Health Loses Appeal to Arbitrate Antitrust Row
Farella Braun + Martel's John Cooper, Rod Thompson and Christopher Wheeler are representing the UFCW & Employers Benefit Trust in UFCW & Employers Benefit Trust v. Sutter Health et al. A California appeals court affirmed a lower court’s decision holding that Sutter Health, a group of health care providers in Northern California, could not compel a union’s benefits trust to arbitrate its putative class claim that the health system overcharged millions of workers.
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