Health

  • June 26, 2026

    Chiropractor Hidden Camera Suits Not Covered, Insurer Says

    An insurer has said it does not owe coverage to an Illinois chiropractor in lawsuits from patients claiming they were among nearly 200 who were secretly recorded while undressed at the chiropractor's office, saying the alleged criminal acts do not qualify as covered professional services.

  • June 26, 2026

    Fla. Judge Won't Lift Asset Freeze In $91M Fake Benefits Suit

    A Florida federal judge declined a request to lift a freeze on two siblings' assets after the Federal Trade Commission accused them of orchestrating a $91 million fraudulent health benefits scheme, ruling they need to find other ways to pay their attorneys.

  • June 26, 2026

    Taxation With Representation: Sidley, Paul Weiss, Kirkland

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, Germany's Merck KGaA acquires life sciences tools supplier Bio-Techne Corp., drugmaker AbbVie buys clinical-stage biotechnology company Apogee Therapeutics, and building materials supplier CRH acquires infrastructure products maker Arcosa Inc.

  • June 26, 2026

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    The past week in London has seen Michelle Mone sued by PPE Medpro, Broadfield Law sued by the founders of an international aid company, and litigation funder Fortress bring a claim against Edwin Coe and businesses the law firm represented in a cartel claim.

  • June 25, 2026

    Sandoz Still Can't Escape Generics Claims From GM, Others

    A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday declined to rethink her decision forcing Sandoz's Swiss parent company to face generic-drug price-fixing claims from major employers like American Airlines Inc. and General Motors LLC, saying the pharmaceutical company "has no new evidence" backing up its argument that the court lacks personal jurisdiction.

  • June 25, 2026

    Meta Fails To Knock Out BIPA Voiceprint Privacy Claims

    A California federal judge has refused to let Meta Platforms Inc. escape an Illinois woman's proposed class claims that Meta collects "voiceprints" in violation of Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act, saying in a ruling unsealed Thursday that whether Meta obtained her voice recordings in a way capable of identifying her was still up for dispute.

  • June 25, 2026

    Texas Faces Tough Questions In Tylenol Autism Appeal

    A Texas appellate court seemed skeptical Thursday of an argument that the parent entities of the company that sells Tylenol should have to defend claims that the pain reliever causes autism, suggesting that the companies don't have enough ties to Texas.

  • June 25, 2026

    NJ Justices Say EMTs Immune In Brain Injury Suit

    The New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday held that paramedics who treated a toddler's head injury, which led to a permanent brain injury, are entitled to immunity under a state statute governing emergency medical treatment, saying they acted in good faith and in accordance with the law's requirements.

  • June 25, 2026

    SEC's Peirce Says Trade Suspension Appeals Belong In Court

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday denied a request by a penny stock company to terminate a COVID-era trading suspension against it, but Commissioner Hester Peirce wrote in a separate concurrence that she believes suspended companies can appeal directly to a federal appellate court without going through the agency first.

  • June 25, 2026

    NC Tax Preparer Will Pay $13.9M For COVID Refund Scheme

    A North Carolina woman who owned a tax return preparation business will be ordered to pay just under $13.9 million after she pled guilty to conspiring to prepare false tax returns, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina.

  • June 25, 2026

    Clinic Manager Asks 4th Circ. To Upend 6-Year Fraud Sentence

    A clinic manager who paid patients in gift cards is challenging her six-year prison sentence, telling the Fourth Circuit on Thursday that a federal judge failed to consider other mitigating factors when sentencing her for healthcare fraud and failing to file a tax return.

  • June 25, 2026

    Netflix Urges Justices Not To Disturb 9th Circ. ERISA Docs Ruling

    Netflix urged the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday not to take up a petition from an employee health plan participant who alleged the company failed to provide him access to plan documents in violation of federal benefits law, arguing the Ninth Circuit's ruling in the case should remain in place.

  • June 25, 2026

    Wash. Therapist Seeks Bar On 'Conversion Therapy' Ban

    A Washington therapist has urged a federal court to bar the state from enforcing its ban on what is commonly known as conversion therapy, arguing that a U.S. Supreme Court decision this year has "vindicated" his right to provide counseling targeted by the ban.

  • June 25, 2026

    Anti-Pot Advocates Preview Arguments In DEA Hearings

    The anti-cannabis parties participating in upcoming U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration hearings on a proposal to change marijuana's Schedule I status will argue that the drug poses too many public health and safety risks for the government to loosen restrictions on it.

  • June 25, 2026

    No Immunity In Idaho THC Child Abuse Registry Suit

    An Idaho federal judge won't throw out a class action alleging Idaho violates constitutional rights by placing women on the state's Child Protection Central Registry for using THC during pregnancy, finding the director of the state's Department of Health and Welfare doesn't have immunity against the claims.

  • June 25, 2026

    3rd Circ. Vexed By Diabetic Worker's Atty, AI Issues

    A Third Circuit panel questioned Thursday whether a hospital employee's disclosure of her diabetes was "too little, too late" to trigger an accommodation after she was written up for sleeping on the job — and whether her attorneys should be sanctioned for filing a minor motion that appeared to include AI-hallucinated citations.

  • June 25, 2026

    2 Firms Lead Merck's $11.3B Bio-Techne Life Sciences Deal

    Germany's Merck has agreed to acquire Bio-Techne Corp. in an all-cash deal valuing the U.S.-based life sciences tools company at about $11.3 billion, including debt, the companies said Thursday.

  • June 24, 2026

    NY Judge Halts DOJ Bid For Trans Youth Medical Records

    A New York federal judge Wednesday barred the U.S. Department of Justice from seeking medical records of transgender patients who received gender-affirming care as minors in the wake of a grand jury subpoena to NYU Langone Health System, saying the government's investigation doesn't outweigh the patients' privacy interests.

  • June 24, 2026

    Delta Dental Says Wash. Antitrust Suit Echoes Faulty Claims

    Delta Dental of Washington said Tuesday an Evergreen State dentist targeting the dental insurer in a proposed antitrust class action has excluded its national affiliates from the case to "escape from a federal court's rejection of identical arguments" that the companies conspired to stifle insurer competition and suppress reimbursement rates.

  • June 24, 2026

    Mich. Tribe Says BCBS Hid Facts Behind ERISA Time Bar

    Counsel for the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan told a Sixth Circuit panel Wednesday that claims against Blue Cross Blue Shield that it did not seek lower, Medicare-like rates for the tribe's plan members should not be time-barred because tribe members did not know until 2014 that the insurance company had been overpaying for coverage.

  • June 24, 2026

    Judge Denies Nurses' Bid To Add New Classes In FLSA Suit

    A Colorado federal judge on Wednesday denied a motion to add new plaintiff members and classes to a Fair Labor Standards Act class and collective action from travel nurses accusing two staffing agencies of unpaid overtime.

  • June 24, 2026

    Wholesalers Say Novo Can't Duck GLP-1 Antitrust Suits

    Drug buyers want a New York federal judge to preserve proposed class claims accusing Novo Nordisk of paying Teva to delay generic competition with its Victoza GLP-1 drug, arguing that whatever the underlying deal was, no generic version materialized when it could have.  

  • June 24, 2026

    Florida AG Opens Probe Over CVS' Ownership Of Caremark

    Florida state enforcers are investigating CVS Corp. over concerns that its ownership of the pharmacy benefits manager Caremark allows it to steer patients to its own retail pharmacies while taking steps to hinder independent rivals.

  • June 24, 2026

    Pfizer Defeats Generic Drug Claims From State AGs

    A Connecticut federal court tossed the claims against Pfizer Inc. in one of three cases by state enforcers accusing dozens of generic-drug makers of price-fixing, finding Pfizer was not responsible for the alleged price increases on several drugs.

  • June 24, 2026

    Gene Therapy Co. Sangamo Gets Initial OK For $30M DIP

    A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Wednesday granted interim approval of a $30 million Chapter 11 financing package for biotechnology company Sangamo Therapeutics Inc., funds that the debtor will use to support a sale process for its assets.

Expert Analysis

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    The Biz Court Digest: Dispatches From Utah's Newest Court

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    While a robust body of law hasn't yet developed since the Utah Business and Chancery Court's founding in October 2024, the number of cases filed there has recently picked up, and its existence illustrates Utah's desire to be top of mind for businesses across the country, says Evan Strassberg at Michael Best.

  • 4 Quick Emotional Resets For Lawyers With Conflict Fatigue

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    Though the emotional wear and tear of legal work can trap attorneys in conflict fatigue — leaving them unable to shake off tense interactions or return to a calm baseline — simple therapeutic techniques for resetting the nervous system can help break the cycle, says Chantel Cohen at CWC Coaching & Therapy.

  • 3 Key Ohio Financial Services Developments From 2025

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    Ohio's banking and financial services sector saw particularly notable developments in 2025, including a significant Ohio Supreme Court decision on creditor disclosure duties to guarantors in Huntington National Bank v. Schneider, and some major proposed changes to the state's Homebuyer Plus program, says Alex Durst at Durst Kerridge.

  • Privacy Ruling Shows How CIPA Conflicts With Modern Tech

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    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 between the California Invasion of Privacy Act's 1967 origins and modern encrypted, browser‑driven communications, says David Wheeler at Neal Gerber.

  • Rescheduling Cannabis Marks New Tax Era For Operators

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    As the attorney general takes steps to move cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act, operators and advisers should prepare by considering the significant changes this will bring from tax, state, industry and market perspectives, says Michael Harlow at CohnReznick.

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    Playing Tennis Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    An instinct to turn pain into purpose meant frequent trips to the tennis court, where learning to move ahead one point at a time was a lesson that also applied to the steep learning curve of patent prosecution law, says Daniel Henry at Marshall Gerstein.

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    Judges On AI: How Judicial Use Informs Guardrails

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    U.S. Magistrate Judge Maritza Dominguez Braswell at the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado discusses why having a sense of how generative AI tools behave, where they add value, where they introduce risk and how they are reshaping the practice of law is key for today's judges.

  • Lessons From EdTech Provider's Data Breach Settlements

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    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 their kind, suggesting a shift in enforcement focus to how companies handle student data and highlighting the potential for coordinated enforcement actions, say attorneys at Wilson Sonsini.

  • Justices' Med Mal Ruling May Spur Huge Shift For Litigators

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    The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in the medical malpractice suit Berk v. Choy, holding that a Florida procedural requirement does not apply to medical malpractice claims filed in federal court, is likely to encourage eligible parties to file claims in federal court, speed the adjudicatory process and create both opportunities and challenges for litigators, says Thomas Kroeger at Colson Hicks.

  • What US Cos. Must Know To Comply With Italy's AI Law

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    Italy's newly effective artificial intelligence law means U.S. companies operating in Italy or serving Italian customers must now meet EU AI Act obligations as well as Italy-specific requirements, including immediately enforceable criminal penalties, designated national authorities and sector-specific mandates, say attorneys at Portolano Cavallo.

  • Key Sectors, Antitrust Risks In Pricing Algorithm Litigation

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    Algorithmic pricing lawsuits have proliferated in rental housing, hotels, health insurance and equipment rental industries, and companies should consider emerging risk factors when implementing business strategies this year, say attorneys at Hunton.

  • Ag Bill Wording Presents Existential Threat To Hemp Industry

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    A proposal in the agriculture appropriations bill for fiscal year 2026, which excludes almost everything synthesized from cannabis from the legal definition of “hemp,” would have catastrophic consequences for thousands of farmers, medical researchers and businesses by banning everything from intoxicating delta-9 THC products to topical CBD creams, says Alissa "Ali" Jubelirer at Benesch.

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    Adapting To Private Practice: 5 Tips From Ex-SEC Unit Chief

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    My move to private practice has reaffirmed my belief in the value of adaptability, collaboration and strategic thinking — qualities that are essential not only for successful client outcomes, but also for sustained professional satisfaction, says Dabney O’Riordan at Fried Frank.

  • 5 Drug Pricing Policy Developments To Watch In 2026

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    2026 may prove to be a critical year for drug pricing in the U.S., with potential major shifts including several legislative initiatives moving forward after being in the works for years, and more experimentation on the horizon concerning GLP-1s and Section 340B pricing, say attorneys at Manatt.

  • Prisoners' Access To Health Info Should Have No Bars

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    To safeguard against unnecessary deaths in custody, courts and policymakers should clarify that incarcerated individuals’ constitutional right to medical care also includes access to sufficient information about their medical conditions, lifting current restrictions that can lead to crucial information being withheld, says Jaehyun Oh at Jacob Fuchsberg Law.

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