Lawyers Pursue $754M in New Blue Cross Antitrust Settlement

Plaintiffs’ lawyers behind a pending $2.8 billion class action antitrust settlement with Blue Cross Blue Shield on Sunday asked a federal judge in Alabama for more than $754 million in legal fees and expenses for their work on the case, which has lasted for more than a decade.

The lawyers, led by Joe Whatley and Edith Kallas of Whatley Kallas, have requested, opens new tab $657.1 million — or 23.47% of the $2.8 billion settlement fund — in legal fees, as well as at least $97 million in expenses.

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