Hospitals Settle Antitrust Lawsuit Alleging Wages Fixed for Nurses

St. John Health System will pay $13.6 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that the seven-hospital Ascension Health subsidiary conspired with several of its Detroit-area competitors to depress nurse wages. The lawsuits, filed in 2006, alleged that the hospitals and systems violated federal antitrust law by sharing wage data in a scheme to prevent competition for nurses from driving...