Defining The 'Superior' Bid In Pfizer-Novo Legal Battle
Pfizer and Novo Nordisk's bidding war and legal fight over obesity biotech company Metsera is raising questions around what legally constitutes a better deal when two companies are hell-bent on the same target.
Gov't Subpoena Powers Face Reckoning In Healthcare Battles
The judicial deference given to the government's power to issue investigative subpoenas is facing an unprecedented challenge in transgender care cases. Willingness by judges to question motives could lead to more subpoena challenges or impede worthy government investigations.
MAHA, Telehealth And Deals: The Forecast From HLTH
With the close of the annual HLTH conference in Las Vegas, Law360 Healthcare Authority talked with healthcare lawyers and business leaders about this year's big themes and what they see coming for a fast-changing industry.
Defining The 'Superior' Bid In Pfizer-Novo Legal Battle
Pfizer and Novo Nordisk's bidding war and legal fight over obesity biotech company Metsera is raising questions around what legally constitutes a better deal when two companies are hell-bent on the same target.
Gov't Subpoena Powers Face Reckoning In Healthcare Battles
The judicial deference given to the government's power to issue investigative subpoenas is facing an unprecedented challenge in transgender care cases. Willingness by judges to question motives could lead to more subpoena challenges or impede worthy government investigations.
MAHA, Telehealth And Deals: The Forecast From HLTH
With the close of the annual HLTH conference in Las Vegas, Law360 Healthcare Authority talked with healthcare lawyers and business leaders about this year's big themes and what they see coming for a fast-changing industry.
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The Ninth Circuit has rejected a petition to send its September ruling reviving a whistleblower suit against Biotronik Inc. before the full court, rejecting Biotronik's petition for a rehearing en banc.
The Federal Trade Commission wants a D.C. federal judge to bar a pair of outside doctors and consultants from vouching for Edwards Lifesciences' planned JenaValve acquisition, arguing in a filing made public T... (more story)
A Delaware vice chancellor Wednesday refused Pfizer Inc.'s emergency bid for a temporary restraining order to block Metsera Inc. from closing a now $10 billion competing bid by Novo Nordisk for the GLP-1 weigh... (more story)
Sonida Senior Living Inc. is planning to buy CNL Healthcare Properties in a $1.8 billion cash-and-stock deal betting on senior housing demand as the country's over-80-years-old population is growing, with help... (more story)
Investors in digital healthcare company iRhythm Technologies are seeking certification of a class that bought shares of the company over a roughly two-year period during which it allegedly concealed issues wit... (more story)
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Intuitive Surgical urged the Ninth Circuit not to revive a surgical repair company's claims alleging it blocked third parties from refurbishing components for its popular da Vinci surgery robot, defending the ... (more story)
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. said on Wednesday it will acquire Clario Holdings Inc., a provider of endpoint data solutions for clinical trials, from a shareholder group led by Astorg, Nordic Capital, Novo Hol... (more story)
A California federal judge has refused to release CVS Pharmacy Inc. and a marketing partner from a putative class action accusing them of illegally intercepting personal health information from those who visit... (more story)
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A First Circuit panel seemed poised on Wednesday to uphold a district court decision finding that the Trump administration lacks the authority to cap indirect costs for research grants at the National Institutes of Health.
A pair of pharmacy trade groups is urging the Eighth Circuit to allow Arkansas to enforce a law barring pharmacy benefit managers from owning pharmacies, arguing the law is a rational response to "abusive" PBM practices.
A Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court judge on Wednesday repeatedly asked healthcare providers at oral arguments to show her facts on why a statewide ban on Medicaid-funded abortions was unconstitutional, often re... (more story)
A worker's overtime claim can proceed against a healthcare company that provides services through the U.S. Department of Labor to individuals who have suffered injuries while working at nuclear facilities, a S... (more story)
The Michigan Supreme Court weighed overturning two of its prior rulings on consumer protection law Wednesday as the state's attorney general sought the court's blessing for an insulin price-gouging investigation.
Fifth Circuit Judge James C. Ho says his court should reconsider what he called "serious constitutional problems with the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act," arguing that whistleblowers who sue under ... (more story)