United States First Circuit

Summary judgment in favor of defendants, in an antitrust action alleging conspired exclusion of podiatric care from standard benefits packages, is affirmed where plaintiffs offered insufficient evidence that physicians controlled the plans' policymaking functions with respect to either insurance benefits or reimbursement rates.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/12/2003
• Published 06/12/2003

Judges

• SELYA, Circuit Judge., Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kevin G. Little, with whom Law Offices of David Efron was on brief, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gilberto J. Marxuach-Torrós, with whom Arturo J. García-Solá and McConnell Valdés were on brief, for appellee La Cruz Azul de Puerto Rico., Luis A. Oliver-Fraticelli, with whom Fiddler, Gonzalez & Rodriguez, LLP, was on brief, for appellee Triple-S, Inc.