Institutional Litigation & Claims Monitoring

Identifying, preserving and pursuing valuable claims for institutions.

Large organizations routinely purchase goods and services, administer employee benefit plans, hold investment portfolios and participate in markets that may be affected by anticompetitive conduct, securities fraud, deceptive practices and other misconduct.

Those losses are not always obvious when they occur.

Grabar Law Office represents universities, municipalities, health systems, businesses, self-funded employers and other institutions in identifying, evaluating and pursuing litigation and recovery opportunities. Our work ranges from monitoring potential claims and settlements to affirmative litigation seeking substantial recoveries on behalf of institutional clients.

The goal is straightforward: help institutions identify valuable claims that might otherwise go unrecognized and determine the most effective way to pursue them.

A Proactive Approach to Institutional Claims

Institutional legal departments face competing demands on time and resources. Monitoring every antitrust investigation, securities action, class settlement, regulatory development and emerging litigation opportunity is rarely practical.

Grabar Law Office helps clients evaluate those developments and determine whether their organization may have suffered a compensable loss.

Depending on the matter, the appropriate strategy may include:

  • pursuing an individual or direct action;
  • serving as a named or representative plaintiff;
  • participating in a class action;
  • evaluating whether to remain in or opt out of a class;
  • submitting a settlement claim;
  • preserving rights while litigation develops; or
  • determining that no action is presently warranted.

Our role is not simply to identify lawsuits. It is to help institutional clients determine which opportunities merit attention and which course of action makes sense under the circumstances.

 

Institutional Litigation

Grabar Law Office currently represents institutional plaintiffs in significant litigation concerning alleged anticompetitive and fraudulent conduct.

The firm has represented universities, municipalities and other institutional payors in litigation alleging that pharmaceutical manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers artificially inflated the prices paid for insulin and other diabetes medications.

Our institutional litigation practice may include matters involving:

 

Antitrust and Overcharge Claims

Institutions purchase substantial quantities of pharmaceuticals, medical products, technology, financial services, construction materials, consumer goods and other products and services.

Price fixing, monopolization, bid rigging, market allocation and other anticompetitive conduct can result in significant institutional overcharges.

We investigate and pursue claims designed to recover those losses.

 

Healthcare and Employee-Benefit Costs

Self-funded employers and other health-plan sponsors directly bear substantial prescription-drug and healthcare expenses.

When those expenditures are allegedly inflated by unlawful pricing practices, undisclosed arrangements or other misconduct, the financial harm can be significant.

Grabar Law Office represents institutional payors seeking recovery for these types of losses.

 

Securities and Investment Losses

Institutions holding securities may suffer losses resulting from materially false or misleading corporate disclosures or other alleged securities-law violations.

We can assist institutional investors in identifying significant securities matters, evaluating potential losses and determining whether participation as a lead plaintiff, class member, opt-out claimant or direct litigant warrants consideration.

 

Consumer and Commercial Claims

Institutions can also be purchasers and consumers entitled to pursue claims arising from deceptive practices, improper charges and other commercial misconduct.

We evaluate those claims individually and in the context of broader litigation and settlement opportunities.

Claims Monitoring and Recovery

Litigation is only one component of the service.

Class actions and other aggregate proceedings produce billions of dollars in settlement funds each year. Yet institutional claimants may fail to recover money to which they are entitled because they do not identify the settlement, cannot readily locate historical purchasing data, miss filing deadlines or submit incomplete claims.

Grabar Law Office assists clients throughout the recovery process.

 

Monitoring

We monitor developing antitrust, securities and other litigation and settlement opportunities that may affect a client's purchasing, investment or business activities.

 

Opportunity Identification

When a potentially relevant matter arises, we assess whether the institution may fall within the affected class or otherwise possess a potentially valuable claim.

 

Data Preservation and Analysis

Where necessary, we work with the client to identify and preserve relevant purchasing, transactional, investment and other historical records needed to evaluate or substantiate a claim.

 

Strategic Evaluation

Not every claim should be handled the same way.

Depending upon the potential recovery, legal issues and client's objectives, we evaluate whether the institution should consider:

  • serving as a plaintiff;
  • remaining an absent class member;
  • filing a settlement claim;
  • opting out and pursuing an individual recovery; or
  • preserving its rights while the matter develops.

 

Settlement Claims and Recovery

When a settlement becomes available, the firm can assist with preparation and submission of claims, communications with claims administrators and counsel, responding to deficiencies and following the matter through distribution.

Designed to Complement In-House Legal Departments

Our institutional practice is intended to supplement—not replace—the work of internal legal, finance and procurement teams.

We seek to minimize the burden on client personnel while ensuring that potential litigation and recovery opportunities receive appropriate attention.

Depending upon the engagement and matter, representation may be available on a contingent-fee or other alternative-fee basis, reducing the need for institutions to allocate additional legal budget to the pursuit of claims.

Representative Institutional Matters

 

Princeton University — Insulin Pricing Litigation

Grabar Law Office represents The Trustees of Princeton University in federal litigation against major insulin manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers alleging that unlawful pricing practices caused Princeton, as a predominantly self-funded employer, to pay artificially inflated prescription-drug costs.

 

Washington University in St. Louis — Insulin Pricing Litigation

The firm represents Washington University in litigation seeking recovery of alleged overcharges incurred through its employee health plans.

 

Municipal Clients — Prescription Drug Pricing

Grabar Law Office has represented municipal entities, including the City of St. Louis, in litigation seeking recovery of allegedly inflated prescription-drug expenditures.

The matters described above are provided as examples of the type of institutional representation undertaken by the firm. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

Who We Work With

Our institutional clients and prospective clients may include:

  • universities and colleges;
  • municipalities and governmental entities;
  • hospitals and health systems;
  • self-funded employers;
  • pension and retirement systems;
  • institutional investors;
  • corporations and privately held businesses;
  • healthcare and benefit-plan fiduciaries; and
  • other organizations that make substantial purchases or hold significant investment assets.

Is Your Organization Leaving Potential Recoveries Unclaimed?

Institutions do not always know when they have been affected by conduct that becomes the subject of antitrust, securities or other complex litigation.

Grabar Law Office can review an organization's purchasing, investment or business profile and discuss whether monitoring, litigation or recovery opportunities may exist.

 

Request a Confidential Institutional Claims Review

Grabar Law Office
One Liberty Place
1650 Market Street, Suite 3600
Philadelphia, PA 19103
267-507-6085