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The Shifting Landscape of Antitrust Lawsuits in the Medical Field

Archer Business Litigation Group Attorney’s Michael Horn and Dylan Newton recently co-authored the Chief Healthcare Executive article, “The shifting landscape of antitrust lawsuits in the medical field.” They continue to discuss widespread staffing shortages in the healthcare industry in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how the shortages may come to affect Antitrust laws in the medical field as courts are expected to further scrutinize how a hospital’s privileges determination could negatively impact the local healthcare landscape, patient care, and physician access. ...read more

Health Staffing Shortages May Draw More Antitrust Scrutiny

Archer Business Litigation Group Attorney’s Michael Horn and Dylan Newton recently co-authored the Law60 article, “Health Staffing Shortages May Draw More Antitrust Scrutiny.” They discuss widespread staffing shortages in the health care industry in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how the shortages may cause courts to begin cracking down on hospitals and hospital systems that have engaged in allegedly anti-competitive behavior. ...read more

Shifts in the Enforceability of Franchise Non-Competes

Dylan R. Newton and Michael S. Horn address the Federal Trade Comission's most recently proposed rule that would ban the use of non-competes in the article, "Shifts in the Enforceability of Franchise Non-Competes," published by Franchising.com on March 2, 2023. ...read more