Expert Analysis

What FDA Guidance Means For The Future Of Health Software

Two significant final guidance documents released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last month reflect a ta... (more story)

Federal Preemption In AI And Robotics Is Essential

Federal preemption offers a unified front at a decisive moment that is essential for safeguarding America's econom... (more story)

How State FCA Activity May Affect Civil Fraud Enforcement

A growing trend of state attorneys general enforcing their False Claims Act analogues independently of the U.S. De... (more story)

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NY Judge Trims Umbilical Cord Blood Co. Investor Suit

A New York federal judge has trimmed a securities class action accusing Global Cord Blood Corp. and others of orchestrating and trying to cover up a scheme in which hundreds of millions of dollars were transfe... (more story)

Olympus Slips Whistleblower Suit Over Testing Practices

A Pennsylvania federal judge has dismissed a whistleblower lawsuit brought by the former head of product development for Olympus Corp. of the Americas, ruling that the ex-executive failed to show he was fired ... (more story)

CareDx Seeks High Court Review Of $45M False Ad Case

Transplant diagnostics company CareDx has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Third Circuit decision that erased a nearly $45 million jury award against rival Natera in a false advertising case, arguing t... (more story)

Ventas, Welltower See Growth Amid Senior Housing Push

Real estate investment trusts Welltower Inc. and Ventas Inc. recorded strong financial results from the last quarter and the full year of 2025, as both companies intensified their focus on senior housing, a se... (more story)

Judge Limits Insurers' Exposure in Opioid Coverage Fight

Insurers garnered several wins Tuesday in a dispute over coverage for thousands of opioid suits against bankrupt pharmaceutical company Endo International, with a Pennsylvania federal court ruling favorably fo... (more story)

5th Circ. Tosses Challenge To La. 340B Discount Drug Rule

A Fifth Circuit panel upheld on Monday a Louisiana law that allows the state to stop prescription drug manufacturers from blocking safety-net healthcare providers from contracting with outside pharmacies to di... (more story)

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Meta Pixel Tracking Suit Tossed Over Lack Of Standing

A North Carolina federal judge has ruled that a prospective class of Nurse.com users lacked standing to sue the website's operator for Video Privacy Protection Act violations for allegedly sharing customers' i... (more story)

Neutrogena Enters $4.7M Deal In BIPA Suit Over Skin360 App

A former Johnson & Johnson subsidiary has agreed to pay $4.7 million to settle a potential class action claiming it unlawfully stored and collected facial scans of people who used its Neutrogena Skin360 tool, ... (more story)

Pa. Providers Say They Lost Billions In Change Health Breach

The health payment platform Change Health Inc., which was at the center of the nation's largest healthcare data breach two years ago, is facing a fresh lawsuit from a proposed class of Pennsylvania healthcare ... (more story)

California's New Privacy Laws Demand Preparation From Cos.

An increase in breach disclosures is coinciding with California's most comprehensive privacy and artificial intelligence legislation taking effect, illustrating the range of vulnerabilities organizations in th... (more story)

'The Shoe Is On The Other Foot': Judge Needles Meta In MDL

A California federal judge presiding over social media addiction multidistrict litigation Wednesday criticized Meta's bid to push newly filed arbitration demands into court, saying she doesn't have jurisdictio... (more story)

NY Judge Rejects Bid To Stop SD Action Against Abortion Ads

A New York federal judge said Wednesday that she can't block South Dakota officials from pursuing state legal action against an abortion rights group that launched an advertising campaign in South Dakota, sayi... (more story)

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Northwell Health Should Beat Pension Plan Suit, Judge Says

Northwell Health inched closer to escaping a proposed class action alleging the hospital system hid cuts to workers' pension plans when converting to a cash-balance plan in the late 1990s, after a New York fed... (more story)

Harvard Docs Get Censored Articles Permanently Restored

The Trump administration agreed to maintain the court-ordered restoration of articles penned by Harvard Medical School researchers that contained references to the LGBTQ+ community after they had previously be... (more story)

Blue Shield Of Calif. Says 'Ghost Network' Action Falls Flat

Trouble finding a mental health care therapist is unfortunate but not something that an entire class action can be based on, argued Blue Shield of California, urging a federal judge to dismiss a suit accusing ... (more story)

Sandoz's Case Against Amgen Over Enbrel Biosimilar Tossed

A Virginia federal court found that Sandoz Inc. should have brought its claims accusing Amgen of blocking competition for Enbrel in a previous patent dispute over the blockbuster autoimmune disease treatment.

RFK Jr.-Founded Group Seeks Role In Vaccine Lawsuit

An organization founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked a Massachusetts federal judge on Wednesday to let it join the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary as a defendant in a lawsuit challengi... (more story)

J&J Unit Appeals $442M Catheter Antitrust Loss To 9th Circ.

Johnson & Johnson's Biosense Webster health tech unit urged the Ninth Circuit to overturn a California federal jury's $147 million antitrust verdict — later upped to $442 million — over the company withholding... (more story)