Gartner, Inc. Securities Class Action
Schmidt v. Gartner (D. Conn.): Cohen Milstein, as Co-Lead Counsel, represents Arkansas Public Employees’ Retirement System and other investors who purchased Gartner, Inc. common stock in a securities class action alleging that Gartner and Gartner’s CEO and CFO made repeated false and misleading statements and omissions to investors about the demand for Gartner’s services amid the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and the gravity of the competitive threat AI posed to Gartner’s growth prospects. During this time, the CEO and CFO allegedly sold their stock for proceeds of more than $68 million.
UnitedHealth Group Shareholder Derivative Litigation
UnitedHealth Group Shareholder Derivative Litigation (D. Minn.): Cohen Milstein represents shareholders of UnitedHealth Group in a shareholder derivative action brought on behalf of the company against certain current and former officers and directors for allegedly breaching their fiduciary duties related to significant legal, regulatory, compliance, and corporate-governance risks, including UnitedHealth’s Medicare Advantage practices, coverage determinations and utilization-management practices, UnitedHealth’s acquisition and operation of Change Healthcare, as well as insider trading and other securities violations.
In re Generic Pharmaceuticals Pricing Antitrust Litigation
In re Generic Pharmaceuticals Pricing Antitrust Litigation (E.D. Pa.): Cohen Milstein represents Direct Purchasers, including pharmaceutical wholesalers, in a large multidistrict litigation alleging that numerous manufacturers of generic pharmaceuticals engaged in an industry-wide anticompetitive “Fair Share Agreement” scheme to fix and raise prices, rig bids, and allocate markets for hundreds of generic drugs. As of August 1, 2026, over $450 million in total settlements have been recovered by the DPPs.
In re Tecfidera Antitrust Litigation
In re Tecfidera Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Ill.): Cohen Milstein represents the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and other employers, unions and health and welfare funds in a civil antitrust and RICO class action against Biogen Inc. for engaging in an unlawful monopolistic scheme with certain PBMs to manipulate and thwart competition for Tecfidera, a medication for multiple sclerosis
Boston Bombing Mass Action
Abbott, et al. v. Islamic Republic of Iran (D.D.C.): Cohen Milstein represents Boston Marathon participants and attendees in a catastrophic injury and wrongful death mass action against the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security for their role in the April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and related acts of terrorism that followed in and around Boston, Massachusetts. The bombing, which killed three and injured several hundred others, was the largest terrorist attack on U.S. soil since September 11, 2001. Plaintiffs seek relief against the defendants through a nonjury civil action under the State Sponsored Terrorism Exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act in connection with an act of international terrorism that occurred in the United States.
Francisco, et al. v. Harren Equity Partners, LLC
Francisco et al v. Harren Equity Partners, LLC (W.D. Va.): Cohen Milstein represents nurses recruited from foreign countries to work in U.S. hospitals in a Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act class action against Harren Equity Partners, LLC, a private equity firm, for allegedly knowingly profiting from a forced labor scheme for more than a decade, carried out by its portfolio company, MedPro (Management Health Systems).