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Healthcare Giants in Heated Texas Noncompete Battle

On November 13, 2023, AMN Healthcare filed a lawsuit (attached below) against Aya Healthcare and Robert Wolf, who before his hire by Aya was a tenured (20 years) senior manager at AMN.

AMN Healthcare and AYA Healthcare go to war in Dallas showdown

Healthcare staffing exploded during the COVID pandemic. With limited labor supply and overwhelming demand, bill and pay rates for temporary and travel nurses tripled in some cases. Despite the post-pandemic slowdown in demand, a continuing shortage of healthcare workers, including physicians, guarantees plenty of demand for the services of healthcare staffing firms.

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