The Legal And Practical Questions Around Trump's WHO Exit
President Donald Trump’s first-day order setting in motion the United States’ withdrawal from the World Health Organization could leave the nation less prepared for global health threats and trigger legal clashes over the president’s authority to act unilaterally.
Cautious Optimism Permeates JPM Health Conference 2025
Law360 Healthcare Authority talked with a dozen attorneys across seven firms during this year's J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference to ask what they were hearing and how that could affect dealmaking for the rest of the year. Here's what we learned.
Experts See Hope, Flaws In FDA's Oxygen Test Bias Guidance
Enthusiasm among health and legal experts about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's new draft guidance on skin-tone bias in blood oxygen meters is being tempered, with some suggesting that more action, including in the courts, might be needed to change how the devices are tested and manufactured.
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A California appeals court upended a hospital operator's win on some claims in nurses' wage and hour lawsuit, saying the nurses put forward enough evidence to show their employer's rounding policy resulted in ... (more story)
Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2024, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughou... (more story)
Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 54 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2024 and securing high-profile litigation wins, incl... (more story)
Private equity firm Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe agreed to limit its involvement, entanglement and ownership rights with its portfolio company U.S. Anesthesia Partners Inc. to resolve allegations they engaged... (more story)
Skincare product company Crown Laboratories Inc. has offered to raise its all-cash bid to buy healthcare biotech company Revance Therapeutics Inc. from $3.10 per share to $3.65 per share as it seeks to beat ou... (more story)
Mylan Pharmaceuticals has agreed to pay $73.5 million to resolve claims it worked with Pfizer to inflate the price of the latter's popular auto-injecting emergency allergy medication EpiPen, a proposed class o... (more story)
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Henry Ford Health has resolved a proposed class action accusing the health system of sharing patients' data with Meta Platforms Inc. and Google Inc. via tracking software embedded in the hospital system's webs... (more story)
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Quest Diagnostics got allegations that it unlawfully shared patient data with Meta Platforms through ad tracking software dismissed Tuesday, after persuading a New Jersey federal judge to reconsider his earlie... (more story)
Atrium Health installed trackers in its mobile app and website to collect patients' data without their consent and then shared that personal information with Google and Facebook for targeted advertising, accor... (more story)
As regulators push for legal reform surrounding artificial intelligence and cases implicating product liability for AI in medical technology continue to rise, manufacturers must adapt and implement new strateg... (more story)
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A former North Carolina ear, nose and throat doctor staring down 25 years in prison for healthcare fraud lost an appeal Tuesday seeking to overturn her conviction, with the Fourth Circuit finding that the lowe... (more story)
In his first day in office, President Donald Trump rescinded a Biden directive for health officials to create new drug-pricing models for Medicare and Medicaid recipients. Here's what you need to know about th... (more story)
A Minnesota state agency defeated a Catholic employee's lawsuit claiming it unlawfully refused to grant him a religious exemption from its COVID-19 vaccination and testing policies, with a federal judge ruling... (more story)
In an interview with Law360 Healthcare Authority, the now-former head of HHS' Administration on Children, Youth, and Families stresses the importance of preventive services and weighs in on the promise and per... (more story)
Several state attorneys general are looking to defend immigrants' Affordable Care Act coverage, while a group of pharmacy benefit managers failed to oust the FTC's Democratic members from a case alleging collu... (more story)
An influential judge with a history of shaping False Claims Act litigation weighed in decisively on a debate that has split circuit judges and may eventually reach the Supreme Court. Attorneys across the count... (more story)