BLUE CROSS, CAL. v. SMITHKLINE BEECHAM LABS.

Nos. Civ. 3:97CV1795 AVC, Civ 3:97CV1835 AVC and Civ. 3:97CV2052 AVC.

62 F.Supp.2d 544 (1998)

BLUE CROSS OF CALIFORNIA et al., Plaintiffs, v. SMITHKLINE BEECHAM CLINICAL LABORATORIES, INC., Defendant. Sarah J. Clark and Ronald S. Schwartzman, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated; Plaintiffs, v. Smithkline Beecham Clinical Laboratories, Inc., Defendant. David Watkins and Mary Gallardo, Plaintiffs, v. Smithkline Beecham Clinical Laboratories, Inc., Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Connecticut.

June 11, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Burns Farley, Daniel P. Scapellati, Halloran & Sage, Hartford, CT, Thomas W. Brunner, Laura A. Foggan, C. Russell Clause, Eric Mahr, Nicole Telecki, Kirk J. Nahra, David O. Ferry, Clifford M. Sloan, Rand L. Allen, Russell D. Duncan, Wiley, Rein & Fielding, Washington, DC, Marc M. Seltzer, Susman Godfrey LLP, Los Angeles, CA, Alison M. Duncan, David L. Douglass, Thomas O. Gorman, Heather J. Stewart, Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, Washington, DC, for Blue Cross of CA, et al., plaintiffs.

Eliot B. Gersten, Gersten & Clifford, Hartford, CT, C. Russell Clause, Eric Mahr, Nicole Telecki, Kirk J. Nahra, David O. Ferry, Clifford M. Sloan, Rand L. Allen, Russell D. Duncan, Wiley, Rein & Fielding, Washington, DC, Thomas O. Gorman, Heather J. Stewart, Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, Washington, DC, for Ronald S. Schwartzman, plaintiff.

MDL Panel, Patricia D. Howard, MDL Clerk, Washington, DC, notice only, pro se.

Thomas O. Gorman, Heather J. Stewart, Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, Washington, DC, for Blue Cross Plaintiff, plaintiff.

Thomas O. Gorman, Heather J. Stewart, Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, Washington, DC, for Class Plaintiffs, plaintiff.

Lisa Kovacs Anderson, Nair & Levin, P.C., Bloomfield, CT, Robert S. Schachter, Catherine E. Anderson, Joseph Lipofsky, Robert S. Schachter, Zwerling, Schachter & Zwerling, New York City, Richard Bemporad, Richard B. Dannenberg, Sherrie Brown, Lowey, Dannenberg, Bemporad & Selinger, White Plains, NY, Robert F. Shea, Jr., New Britain, CT, Jay F. Malcynsky, New Britain, CT, Marc M. Seltzer, Richard B. Drubel, Boies & Schiller, Hanover, NH, for Mary Gallardo, David Watkins, consolidated plaintiffs.

Eliot B. Gersten, Gersten & Clifford, Hartford, CT, Marc R. Stanley, Michelle Heron Galindo, Stanley, Mandel & Iola, Dallas, TX, for Sarah J. Clark, consolidated plaintiff.

A. Hoyt Rowell, III, Richard L. Akel, Ness, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole, Charleston, SC, Thomas N. Crawford, Jr., Joe R. Whatley, Jr., Glen Marshall Connor, Cooper, Mitch, Crawford, Kuykendall & Whatley, Birmingham, AL, Kenneth Ingram, Jr., Morris, Haynes, Ingram & Hornsby, Alexander City, AL, Mitchell A. Toups, Weller, Green, McGowin & Toups, Beaumont, TX, Arthur Sherman, Sherman, Dan & Portugal, Beverly Hills, CA, Mike Hackard, Hackard, Holt & Heller, Gold River, CA, William H. Garvin, III, Weller, Green, McGown & Toups, Tallahassee, FL, for Robert Washington, Health & Welfare, Teamsters Natl CA Gen Security Fund, Carpenters Local, Ralph Parker, Annie Robbins, Dorothy Griffin, Diane Floyd, Larry Floyd, Beverly Coe, Mark Coe, Carpenters Local, Carpenters Local No 127, consolidated plaintiffs.

Denise Davis Schwartzman, Nicholas E. Chimicles, Chimicles & Tikellis, Haverford, PA, for National Computer Indus Alliance, Arthur Davis, consolidated plaintiffs.

Denise Davis Schwartzman, Nicholas E. Chimicles, Chimicles & Tikellis, Haverford, PA, John H. Ward, Michael Jerry Freed, Carol V. Gilden, Much, Shelist, Freed, Denenberg, Ament & Rubenstein, Chicago, IL, for Barbara Donenberg, consolidated plaintiff.

John H. Ward, Michael Jerry Freed, Carol V. Gilden, Gilden, Much, Shelist, Freed, Denenberg, Ament & Rubenstein, Chicago, IL, Jay F. Malcynsky, New Britain, CT, for Miller Building Systems, Inc., consolidated plaintiff.

Denise Davis Schwartzman, Nicholas E. Chimicles, Chimicles & Tikellis, Haverford, PA, for Rose Middleton, consolidated plaintiff.

Denise Davis Schwartzman, Chimicles & Tikellis, Haverford, PA, for Thomas Shallow, consolidated plaintiff.

Craig A. Raabe, Robinson & Cole, Hartford, CT, Bourke G. Spellacy, Richard S. Order, Updike, Kelly & Spellacy, P.C., Hartford, CT, Herbert Dym, Mark H. Lynch, Bobby R. Burchfield, Ethan M. Posner, Covington & Burling, Washington, DC, Jeremy G. Epstein, Shearman & Sterling, New York City, Frederick G. Herold, Thomas H. Lee, II, Dechert, Price & Rhoads, Philadelphia, PA, John P. Lynch, Joseph A. Sullivan, Latham & Watkins, Chicago, Il, William Kennedy Dodds, Dechert Price & Rhoads, New York City, Lawrence B. Clark, Robert D. Eckinger, Laurence J. McDuff, Lange, Simpson, Robinson & Somerville, Birmingham, AL, for Smithkline Beecham Clinical Labs, Inc., defendant.

Trudie R. Hamilton, Carmody & Torrance, Waterbury, CT, Jeremy G. Epstein, Shearman & Sterling, New York City, James R. Warnot, Jr., Shearman & Sterling, New York City, Thomas H. Lee, II., Dechert, Price & Rhoads, Philadelphia, PA, Hollinger F. Barnard, James C. Barton, Jr., Johnston, Barton, Proctor & Powell, Birmingham, AL, for Clinical Lab Svc Inc., consolidated defendant.

Jonathan D. Elliot, Kleban & Samor, Pc, Southport, CT, William M. Billings, Andrew M. Bernstein, Jacobowitz, Garfinkel & Lesman, New York City, for American Medical Collection Agency, consolidated defendant.

James W. Gewin, John Edward Goodman, Bradley Arant Rose & White, Birmingham, AL, David P. King, Hogan & Hartson, Baltimore, MD, for Laboratory Corp of America Holdings, consolidated defendant.

William M. O'Donnell, III, Carmody & Torrance, Waterbury, CT, Jeremy G. Epstein, James R. Warnot, Jr., Thomas H. Lee, II., David P. King, Dechert, Price & Rhoads, Philadelphia, PA, for Clinical Lab Svc Inc., movant.

William M. Bloss, Jacobs, Grudberg, Belt & Dow, P.C., New Haven, CT, for Martha May, movant.


RULING ON THE DEFENDANT'S MOTIONS TO DISMISS

COVELLO, Chief Judge.

This is an action for legal and equitable relief in which the plaintiffs, thirty-seven health care insurers and payers for health care services and two putative class actions, claim that the defendant, SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories, Inc. ("SBCL"), engaged in, inter alia, fraudulent billing practices.1 The amended complaint

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