Busy doctors have embraced AI-powered devices that record patient conversations and generate visit notes. The expansion of ambient notetakers may also be exposing them to unexpected legal risks, including through inadvertent "bycatching" of conversations with sensitive information.
Despite a short week, healthcare dealmakers were busy at work, as Law360 counted at least four billion-dollar transactions involving names like BridgeBio and AstraZeneca. Here's a look at those deals and others.
A closely watched test of whether religious freedom laws can protect abortion rights is headed to the Indiana Supreme Court. Legal experts said the case "flips the usual script" on religious liberty protections.
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While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has taken a concrete step forward on reclassifying certain peptides, t... (more story)
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The year's second quarter brought several notable banking law developments to New York, including a proposal to al... (more story)
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The Texas Supreme Court decision in LabCorp v. Texas last month, finding that the state's False Claims Act require... (more story)
Regeneron has told a Delaware federal judge there is new reason to preserve its $407 million win against Amgen over cholesterol drug bundling after a California federal judge found in an analogous case that th... (more story)
A New Jersey federal judge has refused to let generic-drug company Tris Pharma Inc. escape a suit claiming its attempt to sell a competing version of Jazz Pharmaceuticals' narcolepsy drug Xyrem infringes a series of patents.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday accused a former AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP employee of using nonpublic information to trade ahead of the company's $1.1 billion acquisition of vacc... (more story)
Handa Pharmaceuticals and Intas Pharmaceuticals are wrongly trying to bring to market drugs that would compete with Exelixis Inc.'s blockbuster cancer pill Cabometyx before patents on the medication expire, ac... (more story)
The U.S. Supreme Court clarified the pleading standard for induced infringement of skinny labels, and the Federal Circuit opened the door to increased damages for patent owners. Here's what you need to know ab... (more story)
A Texas federal jury has found that claims in four patents Invisalign maker Align Technology Inc. asserted against orthodontics company ClearCorrect were invalid, but the jurors also rejected ClearCorrect's an... (more story)
Two pharmacy benefit managers have told a Michigan federal judge that a trade association for small pharmacies should not be allowed to intervene in a price-fixing lawsuit brought by the state's attorney general.
An Illinois federal judge has refused to toss a putative class action accusing health information technology services provider Veradigm LLC of illegally divulging patient portal visitors' protected health info... (more story)
A Missouri bankruptcy judge entered an order Tuesday authorizing a $46.7 million settlement between the plan administration trust created under the Chapter 11 plan of DNA-testing company 23andMe and data breac... (more story)
The organizations best positioned for the cryptographic system migration deadlines and other requirements under President Donald Trump’s recent quantum executive orders will be those able to inventory their cr... (more story)
A California federal court has denied Medtronic Inc.'s attempt to ditch a roughly $382 million trial loss in an antitrust case accusing the company of maintaining its monopoly over a surgical device through co... (more story)
Following several U.S. Supreme Court terms teeming with reversals and rebukes of lower appeals courts, the justices this term found fault less often with rulings by circuit judges, who are likely becoming bett... (more story)
A D.C. federal judge appeared skeptical Thursday that a Federal Trade Commission case against a gender-affirming care organization must be halted while the group wages a separate case against the commission's ... (more story)
A Memphis gynecologist was sentenced to 20 years in prison Wednesday in Tennessee federal court after being convicted in a case where he was accused of repeatedly inserting dirty, single-use medical devices in... (more story)
Retired U.S. Circuit Judge Paul R. Michel is backing Amgen against Sandoz's Fourth Circuit appeal, arguing in an amicus brief that the final say over now-nixed allegations of blocked biosimilar competition to ... (more story)
Adult family homes in Washington cannot use a state minimum wage exemption to deny wage-and-hour protections to caregivers who live where they work, the Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday, holding the car... (more story)
The full Seventh Circuit will hear Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier's initial appeal of a lower court's injunction blocking his state court lawsuit targeting medical groups' policies on youth gender-aff... (more story)
Hologic Inc., a medical technology company focused on women's health, has been hit with a proposed class action in Massachusetts federal court alleging sensitive personal data it held was exposed in a recent cyberattack.
A Michigan federal judge on Wednesday dismissed an age discrimination claim brought by a professor of surgery against the University of Michigan board of regents and a hospital department chief, but kept intac... (more story)
The U.S. Supreme Court's January ruling in Berk, which held that a federal plaintiff needn't follow Delaware's procedural rules for medical malpractice cases, is set for its first test in a Maine case in which... (more story)
Sam's Club and a former employee who alleged she suffered a miscarriage after the retailer failed to accommodate work restrictions related to her attempt to become pregnant through in vitro fertilization have ... (more story)