The Future of The 340B Rebate Pilot
A federal judge halted a new 340B pilot program, handing a win for safety net healthcare providers. Healthcare attorneys say it's too early for providers to celebrate.
FDA To Ease Regulation Of Wearables, Decision Software
U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary touted new federal guidance on Tuesday that he said would promote innovation by making it easier to bring certain kinds of wearable devices and clinical-decision software to market without a strict regulatory review.
The Most Important Healthcare And Life Science Deals Of 2025
Attorneys taking stock of 2025 spoke to Law360 about the most important deals of the year, including Pfizer’s high-profile acquisition of Metsera and transactions in outpatient services and gene therapy.
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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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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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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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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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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.
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)