State v. Eastern Ambulance Service, Inc., Index No. 83-2613 (N.Y. Sup. Ct., Onondaga County)
Defendants engaged in a conspiracy to monopolize the ambulance service provider market. Eastern Ambulance Service agreed to stop providing private wheelchair transportation services. In return, Tender Loving Care Medical Transportation Services, Inc. (TLC) agreed to withdraw from the ambulance service market. The case settled for $35,000.
New York v. Salem Sanitary Catering Corp, et. al., No. 85 Civ. 0208 (E.D.N.Y. 1992)
Nassau and Suffolk County garbage collection services conspired to allocate routes and customers, fix prices, coerce competition out of their market and rig bids. New York brought a class action law suit under its parens patriae authority.
In the Matter of Tri-County Hospital and Wadena Med. Center, No. C4-94-11900 (Ramsey Cty. Cr. Minn., Nov. 30, 1994)
State alleged hospital and large clinic sought to allocate the markets for x-ray equipment and colposcopy equipment.
Florida v. HCA, No. 03-V-177-FtM-29DNF (M.D. Fl. April 18, 2003)
State alleged that defendants had unlawfully allocated geographic and product markets among themselves. Markets included acute care hosptial services, open heart surgery, and health facilities in several Florida counties.
Ohio v. Daicel Chemical Industries LTD et al.
State of Ohio filed suit against Sorbates manufacturers. Complaint alleged that the manufacturers met to set prices and allocate markets. Case settled.
Ohio v. Maccaferri Gabions Manufacturing Co., Inc. et al.
Ohio Attorney General sought damages against two manufacturers of gabions (wire mesh baskets designed to be filled with stones and wired together?used for flood control) for market allocation and price fixing. Investigation was precipitated by a plea in a similar federal case.
Ohio v. Browning-Ferris Industries, Inc.
State of Ohio filed suit on behalf of 25 Toledo area school districts claiming that BFI and its competitors allocated the waste removal market in the Toldeo/Lucas county area. Case was settled
Ohio v. Jones Chemicals, Inc. et al.
State of Ohio sought to recover damages from chemical companies for price fixing and customer allocation on packaged chlorine.
Utah v. Western Dairymen Cooperative, Inc., Civ.No. 89090147 (3rd Dist. Utah 1989)
The State of Utah brought this action against Western Dairyment cooperative, Meadow Gold Dairies and others alleging price-fixing and market allocation agreements with regard to milk and milk products sold in Utah.
Utah v. Stericycle, Inc. (Civ. No. 2:03 CV 49) (D.Utah 2003)
State of Utah alleged Stericycle and BFI Waste Systems of North America colluded to allocate markets and customers in Utah, Colorado, and Arizona
