About Bill Markovits
Founding partner Bill Markovits focuses his practice on complex civil litigation, including securities, antitrust, RICO, False Claims Act, and consumer class actions. He began his career as a trial lawyer at the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division in Washington, D.C., and continued that antitrust focus in Cincinnati, including serving as an adjunct professor of antitrust at the University of Cincinnati Law School. His notable cases include a Choice Care securities, antitrust, and RICO class action where a jury awarded over $100 million to a class of physicians; a fraud and RICO case on behalf of Procter & Gamble that settled for $165 million.
An 11-year antitrust and RICO class action against Humana that reached the U.S. Supreme Court and settled for millions; and a national Microsoft class action in which he was chosen to depose Bill Gates. More recently, he served as lead counsel in the Fannie Mae Securities Litigation ($153 million settlement), a class action against Duke Energy ($80.75 million settlement), a class action against Navistar (benefits valued at $742 million), and Collins v. Eastman Kodak, where he obtained a preliminary injunction on an antitrust tying claim. He was a 2015 finalist in the American Antitrust Institute's Antitrust Enforcement Awards.
Proven verdicts and settlements
After nearly 30 years of litigation, Markovits Stock and DeMarco secured a $742 million-plus-interest settlement for approximately 23,000 Navistar retirees whose healthcare and life insurance benefits had been repeatedly reduced.
A nearly decade-long securities fraud class action against Fannie Mae and its former auditor KPMG, brought on behalf of Ohio pension funds holding millions in Fannie Mae stock, settled for $153 million after Bill Markovits served as lead counsel for the class.
A seven-year civil RICO and antitrust class action against Duke Energy Ohio over a secret rebate scheme that favored roughly two dozen large industrial customers at the expense of about one million residential and small-business ratepayers settled for $80.875 million, with Bill Markovits and Paul DeMarco serving as lead co-counsel.
A federal RICO class action filed on behalf of hundreds of Ohio and Kentucky real estate investors who lost tens of thousands of dollars each in a deceptive house-flipping scheme run by Blue Ash-based Build Realty settled for $1.3 million in 2023.
A certified class of Nevada insurance beneficiaries alleged that Humana secretly pocketed hospital discounts while forcing members to overpay their 20% co-share, and after a decade of litigation that reached the U.S. Supreme Court, the co-payor class recovered $11.9 million as part of a larger settlement resolving the claims.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
