Biotech Fundraising A Good Sign For Public Markets
At the start of what many healthcare attorneys hope will be a busy year, public biotechs are raising cash, signaling a thawing public market and potentially fertile ground for IPOs.
Meet The Fed. Judge Overseeing Social Media Addiction MDL
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is presiding over a historic case against social media platforms, is known as a well-prepared jurist with a long track record in high-stakes litigation involving tech giants like Apple Inc.
Record FCA Haul Sends 'Loud' Message On Federal Priorities
Aggressive enforcement by President Donald Trump's administration and the qui tam bar's success prosecuting fraud even without government intervention helped fuel the explosion in recoveries under the False Claims Act last year, experts say.
Biotech Fundraising A Good Sign For Public Markets
At the start of what many healthcare attorneys hope will be a busy year, public biotechs are raising cash, signaling a thawing public market and potentially fertile ground for IPOs.
Meet The Fed. Judge Overseeing Social Media Addiction MDL
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is presiding over a historic case against social media platforms, is known as a well-prepared jurist with a long track record in high-stakes litigation involving tech giants like Apple Inc.
Record FCA Haul Sends 'Loud' Message On Federal Priorities
Aggressive enforcement by President Donald Trump's administration and the qui tam bar's success prosecuting fraud even without government intervention helped fuel the explosion in recoveries under the False Claims Act last year, experts say.
Expert Analysis
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A Second Circuit panel seemed poised Tuesday to find that an anesthesiology practice didn't suffer an antitrust injury in its claim that a United Healthcare unit used its market power in New York to cut reimbursement rates.
Executives and directors of insurance comparison platform SelectQuote were hit with a shareholder's derivative suit accusing them of concealing a kickback scheme currently subject of a False Claims Act suit by... (more story)
Biogen Inc. must face health plans' claims that it bribed pharmacy benefit managers to stifle generics competition for its multiple sclerosis drug Tecfidera, after an Illinois federal judge found Wednesday tha... (more story)
A Florida state appeals court on Wednesday reversed class certification for a group of Medicare-contracted businesses suing USAA Casualty Insurance Co. over allegations the insurer sidestepped its obligation t... (more story)
It was a week of good news and bad news for the healthcare industry. Earnings season kicked off when three companies posted financials for the final three months of last year, and results were mixed. Here's wh... (more story)
Holland & Knight LLP attorneys advised AdventHealth on its multimillion-dollar outpatient acquisitions, Evernorth Health Services' $3.5 billion investment in Shields Health Solutions and Palomar Health on its ... (more story)
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The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has shot down Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s challenge to an Ouraring Inc. smart ring patent amid an ongoing legal dispute that has spanned the board, federal district court a... (more story)
A California federal court's recent holding in Doe v. Eating Recovery Center that Meta is not liable for reading, or attempting to read, the pixel-related transmission while in transit reflects a mismatch betw... (more story)
Brass of Inspire Medical Systems Inc. face shareholder derivative claims they breached their fiduciary duties by concealing issues affecting the launch of the company's latest sleep apnea device, damaging inve... (more story)
The operator of a laser eye surgery website must face a proposed class action alleging it illegally shared patients' confidential medical information with Meta, a California federal judge ruled, finding that t... (more story)
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP said Monday it is boosting its privacy and information security practice with the addition of a former 23andMe attorney in California and a former Facebook attorney in Texas.
Education technology company Illuminate Education's recent settlements with three states and the Federal Trade Commission over state privacy law claims following a student data breach are some of the first of ... (more story)
Policy & Compliance More
Federal watchdog guidance on the soon-to-be-launched TrumpRx website has assuaged some, but not all, concerns about anti-kickback compliance and other legal risks facing drugmakers.
Alston & Bird LLP has added a healthcare regulatory attorney previously with Goodwin Procter LLP as a partner in Chicago, the firm announced Tuesday.
Seattle-area hospital system Swedish Health Services and the workers who were seeking about $126 million from it told a Washington state court that they agreed to settle a suit claiming meal break violations a... (more story)
The city of Boston faced pushback from a First Circuit judge on Monday as it argued it didn't miss its window to sue pharmacy benefit managers for their alleged role in the opioid epidemic.
Lannett Company Inc., Bausch Health US LLC and Bausch Health America Inc. will pay $17.85 million to settle allegations by 48 states and territories that they conspired to fix prices for generic drugs, accordi... (more story)
Lawyers representing Amazon customers in a proposed class action over supplement labeling have apologized to a Seattle federal judge for artificial intelligence hallucinations included in a recent filing, ackn... (more story)