Expert Analysis

Unique Aspects Of Texas' Approach To AI Regulation

The Texas Responsible AI Governance Act — which will soon be the sole comprehensive artificial intelligence law in... (more story)

IP Ownership Risk Grows In Booming Cancer Drug Market

The ownership of intellectual property has become strategically decisive in deals involving valuable cancer therap... (more story)

Surveying The Healthcare Policy Landscape Post-Shutdown

With last week's agreement to reopen the federal government, at least through the end of January, key healthcare l... (more story)

Deals & Corporate Governance More

FTC Withdraws In-House GTCR Merger Case

The Federal Trade Commission withdrew its administrative case challenging GTCR BC Holdings LLC's acquisition of a medical coatings supplier to consider whether to drop the case entirely after an Illinois feder... (more story)

Is 'Red Book' Best For Drug Pricing? Pa. Justices Ask

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court seemed skeptical Wednesday that the state workers' compensation authorities were using the best guide to calculate pharmacy reimbursements for injured workers' prescription drugs... (more story)

GTCR Wants FTC's In-House Merge Case Withdrawn Too

GTCR BC Holdings LLC wants the Federal Trade Commission to rethink its in-house challenge to a medical coatings supplier merger after an Illinois federal judge refused a temporary block and the FTC opted not t... (more story)

Perrigo Sued Over Misstatements On Infant Formula Business

Perrigo Company PLC faces a shareholder class action alleging the company and its top brass failed to disclose critical issues with infant formula operations that it purchased from Nestle and caused stock pric... (more story)

McGuireWoods Is Delaying Defamation Case, NC Justices Told

The former CEO of a managed care organization who alleges McGuireWoods and one of its ex-partners defamed him during a press conference more than seven years ago has told North Carolina's top court not to take... (more story)

UConn Health Poised To Buy Hospital In $35M Ch. 11 Deal

Bankrupt for-profit hospital operator Prospect Medical Holdings Inc. on Monday sought approval for the $35 million sale of Waterbury Hospital in Connecticut to two UConn Health units under a stalking horse bid... (more story)

Digital Health & Technology More

Where Apple And Masimo's Watch Patent Fight Stands Now

The high-octane fight between Apple and Masimo over smartwatch patents escalated again last week, when a California federal jury hit Apple with a $634 million infringement verdict and the U.S. International Tr... (more story)

DaVita Reaches Tentative Deal In Patients' Data Breach Suit

DaVita Inc. has reached a settlement in principle with current and former patients of the healthcare company who alleged in Colorado federal court that it did not adequately protect their personal information,... (more story)

Whoop Blood Pressure Tracker Hit With False Ad Suit

A consumer on Tuesday hit health and wellness wearable tech company Whoop Inc. with a proposed class action in California federal court alleging that its boasting of the blood pressure features of its fitness ... (more story)

Telehealth Co. Hims Sued Over College Student's Suicide

The family of a Washington State University student who died by suicide have sued telehealth company Hims & Hers Health Inc. in Washington state court, alleging their son was negligently prescribed an antidepr... (more story)

Patients Net $2.55M Deal To End Plasma Co. Data Breach Case

A group of patients is seeking a final seal of approval from a North Carolina federal judge on their $2.55 million settlement with a plasma collection company accused of failing to safeguard their personal dat... (more story)

Apple Hit By $634M Verdict Over Masimo Health Tech Patent

A California federal jury on Friday awarded Masimo Corp. more than $634 million from Apple Inc. following an eight-day trial, finding that certain Apple Watches infringed one of Masimo's pulse oximetry patents... (more story)

Policy & Compliance More

PBMs Say Gov't Benefits From Drug Rebates FTC Condemns

Caremark Rx, Express Scripts and OptumRx have been given permission to seek documents they say will show the government benefits from the same type of prescription drug rebating activity that's being targeted ... (more story)

'No Evidence' New Info Backs J&J Unit's Libel Suit, Court Told

A doctor being sued by Johnson & Johnson's bankrupt talc subsidiary pushed back on the unit's bid to revive its trade libel claim over a scientific article she wrote linking asbestos in talc to mesothelioma, a... (more story)

Rothman Orthopaedics Hit With Pa. Wiretapping Lawsuit

Rothman Orthopaedics has been hit with a proposed class action in Pennsylvania alleging the company violated state wiretapping laws by intercepting private healthcare information on its website using a third-p... (more story)

Hyperbaric Chamber Death Suit Not Covered, Insurers Say

Two Nationwide insurers said they have no duty to defend or indemnify a hyperbaric oxygen therapy center or its employees in a suit over the death of a 5-year-old boy, telling a Michigan federal court that the... (more story)

1st Circ. Clears IT Co. In Suit Over Zoll Patient Data Breach

An information technology company cannot be held liable for a data breach exposing the health information of patients of a unit of medical device maker Zoll Medical Corp, the First Circuit ruled, because the t... (more story)

Pharma Cos. Seek Early Win In States' Price-Fixing Lawsuit

A collection of states failed to prove an overarching conspiracy among 25 separate pharmaceutical companies to fix the prices of generic drugs, most of them dermatology formulations, the drugmakers argued Wedn... (more story)