Expert Analysis

4 Trends Shaping Drug And Medical Device Law For 2026

2025 saw some significant legal developments with potential impact for drug and device manufacturers, ranging from... (more story)

Key Trends In Healthcare Antitrust In 2025

The healthcare industry braced for significant antitrust enforcement shifts last year driven by a change in admini... (more story)

The 5 Most Important Bid Protest Decisions Of 2025

In a shifting bid protest landscape, five decisions in 2025 from the Federal Circuit, the U.S. Court of Federal Cl... (more story)

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NC Anesthesiologists Dismiss Pay Cut Dispute With Board

A group of North Carolina anesthesiologists voluntarily dismissed their lawsuit accusing business partners of unlawfully slashing monthly compensation in retaliation for questioning a proposed fee-sharing arra... (more story)

Aetna Drug Price-Fixing Suit Against Pharma Cos. Paused

A judge has paused Aetna Inc.'s Connecticut Superior Court lawsuit accusing nearly two dozen pharmaceutical companies of fixing the prices of generic drugs, refusing drugmakers' bids to dismiss the case but ag... (more story)

Top 5 Antitrust Issues For In-House Counsel To Watch In 2026

With Trump administration enforcement policy having largely taken shape last year, antitrust issues that in-house counsel should have on the radar range from scrutiny of technology-assisted pricing to the retu... (more story)

AdaptHealth To Pay Investors $35M To End Inflated-Sales Suit

Medical device provider AdaptHealth Corp. has agreed to pay $35 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of deceiving shareholders about its revenue projections as it "routinely engaged in improper and unethica... (more story)

Top North Carolina Cases Of 2025

A sweep of settlements in major lawsuits punctuated the second half of the year in North Carolina, from a record-breaking wrongful death deal to an eleventh-hour resolution in a lending fight over a biogas dev... (more story)

New Class Action Claims CIBC, RBC Rigged Quantum Shares

A Quantum Biopharma investor has filed a proposed class action against several major Canadian banks, accusing them of running a spoofing scheme for years that artificially drove down Quantum's stock price — fl... (more story)

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DOJ's Wound Care 'Glam-Flam' Case: What You Need To Know

A first-of-its-kind fraud involving wound care that used human placental tissue led to prison sentences for an Arizona wife and husband known as the "glam-flam" couple, as well as a nearly $310 million settlem... (more story)

Mass. Justices Won't Shield Health Records In Med Mal Suit

Massachusetts' highest court on Tuesday declined to rule that medical records filed with a court should be automatically hidden from public view in a medical malpractice suit, finding no reason to undo a judge... (more story)

The High-Stakes Healthcare AI Battles To Watch In 2026

Courts across the country are set to hear a wave of litigation in the coming year that will begin to draw the legal boundaries around artificial intelligence in healthcare and the life sciences. Law360 spoke w... (more story)

Patients Say Pa. Med Mal Firm Left Data Vulnerable To Hackers

A Pittsburgh law firm that handles medical malpractice and insurance litigation faces a proposed class action complaint alleging that it failed to protect the private health and personal data of patients whose... (more story)

Colo. IVF Co. Says AI Fertility Co. Owes Nearly $900K

The maker of an in vitro fertilization incubator system has filed a breach of contract lawsuit in Colorado federal court, claiming an artificial intelligence-based fertility company owes it nearly $900,000 for... (more story)

ITC Clears Toy Gun Imports, Will Review Smart Rings, Vapes

The U.S. International Trade Commission has had a busy week in intellectual property, determining a series of toy gun imports don't infringe Spin Master patents licensed to Hasbro, instituting reviews requeste... (more story)

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Covenant Health Sued Over Patient Data Security Breach

Nonprofit healthcare system Covenant Health Inc. has been hit with a proposed class action over a data breach that reportedly compromised the information of nearly half a million people.

8th Circ. Revives Jail Suicide Suit Against Mental Health Org.

An Eighth Circuit panel unanimously revived a lawsuit Tuesday by the family of an Iowa jail inmate who died by suicide, holding that a jury could find that a mental health provider's alleged incomplete report ... (more story)

Judge Hints Conn. Dentist's Press Release Claims Lack Teeth

A Connecticut appellate judge seemed to doubt Tuesday that a dentist had asserted clear constitutional claims against state officials who issued a press release about his $300,000 False Claims Act settlement, ... (more story)

Bankrupt Hospital Wants Out Of $3B BCBS Antitrust Deal

A bankrupt Alabama hospital is asking a federal judge to allow it to drop out of a $2.8 billion antitrust class action settlement with Blue Cross Blue Shield, saying it may be forced to shut down unless it can... (more story)

Cigna Accused Of Rigging Market For Life-Saving Drugs

Patients with chronic health conditions sued Cigna in an Illinois federal court alleging in a proposed class action Tuesday that the company and its pharmacy and pharmacy benefit manager subsidiaries use exclu... (more story)

FTC Signals Support Of Miss. Bill For Midwives' Solo Practice

A Federal Trade Commission official on Monday encouraged a Mississippi lawmaker to keep in mind the possible motives of opponents of proposed legislation that would exempt midwives from having to contract with... (more story)