Pacemaker Co. Seeks Clarity on Qui Tam Publicity Test
A medical device company is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify the False Claims Act's public disclosure bar. To succeed, the company will have to show a true circuit split has emerged, not just differing interpretations of subjective language in the law.
Healthcare Deals This Week: Novartis, Sanofi, Gilead
Alphabet's mega-round and major agreements in the T-cell engager space. Law360 breaks down the big deals from the past week.
Utah Hospitals To Track Violence As States Step Up Reporting
A new law set to take effect this year will require Utah hospitals to track and report violence against doctors and nurses as the state joins a bipartisan push across the country to better understand the risks facing healthcare workers.
Pacemaker Co. Seeks Clarity on Qui Tam Publicity Test
A medical device company is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify the False Claims Act's public disclosure bar. To succeed, the company will have to show a true circuit split has emerged, not just differing interpretations of subjective language in the law.
Healthcare Deals This Week: Novartis, Sanofi, Gilead
Alphabet's mega-round and major agreements in the T-cell engager space. Law360 breaks down the big deals from the past week.
Utah Hospitals To Track Violence As States Step Up Reporting
A new law set to take effect this year will require Utah hospitals to track and report violence against doctors and nurses as the state joins a bipartisan push across the country to better understand the risks facing healthcare workers.
Expert Analysis
As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration undergoes the User Fee Act reauthorization process and renegotiates its u... (more story)
Legislation recently approved by Congress to reauthorize the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business... (more story)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's new plausible mechanism framework for developing individualized therapies ... (more story)
Deals & Corporate Governance More
Sarepta Therapeutics Inc. wants the full Federal Circuit to rethink a decision reviving a University of Pennsylvania gene therapy patent, saying a panel got its analysis of patent eligibility wrong.
The U.S. International Trade Commission has found that an aesthetics medical device company infringed a Hydrafacial LLC skin treatment patent, but stopped short of enforcing a ban on imports.
A Texas bankruptcy judge Tuesday gave Genesis Healthcare permission to pay up to $7.3 million in bonuses to executives and other employees, agreeing with the nursing home chain that the workers are needed to k... (more story)
The liability landscape for investors in the long-term care industry shifted with a big-dollar California jury verdict. Law360 talked to plaintiffs counsel Ed Dudensing about the trial and legal accountability... (more story)
Amarin Pharma Inc. has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a decision that it plausibly alleged that generics maker Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. encouraged infringement of patents on the heart drug Vascep... (more story)
Dermal fillers company Revance Therapeutics Inc. and two of its executives have agreed to a $17 million settlement to end claims the company hurt investors after the value of a take-private tender offer was ne... (more story)
Digital Health & Technology More
Drug company Atara Biotherapeutics Inc. has been hit with a proposed class action accusing it of harming investors by not disclosing certain manufacturing problems and research study deficiencies that made it ... (more story)
Drugmaker Novartis collected patients' personal and health information through pharmaceutical marketing websites and transmitted it to third parties including Google using "surreptitious online tracking tools"... (more story)
A consolidated class action alleging a pediatric medical practice failed to protect minor patients' data from hackers can remain in the North Carolina Business Court, a judge ruled in finding the lawsuits were... (more story)
Trinity Health Corp. and Health Gorilla Inc. were hit with a proposed class action in Michigan federal court alleging that they failed to protect the sensitive personal information of patients whose data was i... (more story)
Biotechnology firm CytoDyn has agreed to dole out 49 million shares of common stock and pay $500,000 to end investors' proposed class action accusing the company of overstating the likelihood that the U.S. Foo... (more story)
The Federal Circuit on Friday ruled in favor of the government in a dispute with a subcontractor over rights to healthcare software for a U.S. Army veterinary records system, affirming a lower court finding th... (more story)
Policy & Compliance More
Business services company Conduent unlawfully imposes health insurance surcharges on employees who use tobacco products, forcing them to pay more for coverage the company provides, a former employee and plan p... (more story)
A transgender medical care group and two healthcare trade organizations must turn over documents related to the group's claims made in their marketing and advertising for gender-affirming care for minors, the ... (more story)
An Illinois federal judge gave his final sign-off Tuesday to a $5.7 million settlement in what he called an "interesting" case accusing Cigna of improperly advertising out-of-network providers as though they'r... (more story)
A Louisiana federal judge agreed to toss a federal benefits lawsuit against a health company from workers who alleged the company misspent forfeitures from their employee 401(k) plan, rejecting the workers' ar... (more story)
The Ohio Supreme Court appeared split Tuesday as to whether a new state law banning gender-affirming care for minors trumps a decade-old healthcare freedom provision passed by voters that says state laws can't... (more story)
A new federal anti-fraud task force involving at least a dozen federal agencies could soon expose more state and local governments, contractors, companies and others to compliance risks, particularly in health... (more story)