March 25, 2025
Hartford HealthCare Corp. says it cannot be forced to reveal a confidential January antitrust settlement with another Connecticut hospital at the behest of a Teamsters health plan and a public transit agency separately accusing the consortium of creating a monopoly.
In a memorandum filed Monday in Connecticut federal court, Hartford HealthCare accused the Estuary Transit District and the Teamsters 671 Health Service and Insurance Plan of attempting to learn the cash amount, assuming one exists, in its deal with Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center.
However, the settlement and the communications surrounding it do not contain admissible evidence about the underlying Saint Francis case that could bolster the Teamsters plan’s separate proposed class action, Hartford HealthCare said. Therefore, the settlement does not pass discovery limits established by Rule 26(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, it argued.
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The Estuary Transit District, the Teamsters plan and the proposed class are represented by Daniel J. Walker, Eric L. Cramer and Hope Brinn of Berger Montague, Michael B. Eisenkraft, Christopher J. Bateman, Silvie R. Saltzman, Brent W. Johnson and Nathaniel D. Regenold of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Douglas A. Millen, Michael E. Moskovitz, Robert J. Wozniak and Matthew W. Ruan of Freed Kanner London & Millen LLC, Frank R. Schirripa and Scott Jacobsen of Hach Rose Schirripa & Cheverie LLP and Jonathan M. Shapiro of Aeton Law Partners LLP.
Read Hartford HealthCare Fights Disclosure of Antitrust Settlement.