The suit contended that executives of the two houses had cooperated to fix fees as far back as 1992.
D1 Neediest Cases D4 ARTS E1-12 Sotheby's Ex-Chief Guilty A. Alfred Taubman, 76, was convicted of conspiring with rival Christie's to fix fees for auction house sellers.
[World Business, Section W.] Taubman Convicted in Auction Case A. Alfred Taubman, the controlling shareholder of Sotheby's, was found guilty of conspiring with rival Christie's to fix fees charged to auction house sellers.
A. Alfred Taubman, who dipped into a billion-dollar fortune from shopping centers to become principal owner of Sotheby's, was found guilty yesterday of conspiring with its rival, Christie's, to fix fees charged to auction house sellers.
Their collusion began a year before the government claims the two executives' bosses -- the supposedly rival chairmen of the two auction giants -- hatched their own top-level conspiracy to fix fees charged to auction sellers.
The seller is A. Alfred Taubman, the former chairman of Sotheby's, who was convicted last month of conspiring with his counterpart at Christie's to fix fees charged to sellers.
The employer would be charged a fixed fee regardless of the time it took to rehabilitate the condition.
Under Mr. McWherter's system, the state paid a privately run health maintenance organization a fixed fee per patient per month.
Partners at Brevan Howard have continued with the traditional hedge fund practice of charging 20% of any profits they make for clients alongside a fixed fee of 2%.
Dr. Joshua Beshad, the hospital medical director, conceded that the basic health plan required paying a fixed fee outside the network, but he explained that emergency hospitalization or emergency care outside the network was covered "100percentt".
