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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Deals & Corporate Governance More
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)
A D.C. Circuit panel revived a lawsuit Friday accusing pharmaceutical companies of aiding a Hezbollah-linked militia's terrorism in Iraq, saying the victims behind the case have adequately alleged that the com... (more story)
The D.C. federal court ruling earlier this month that upended a deal for Edwards Lifesciences Corp. to purchase JenaValve Technology Inc. was based on concerns that the deal would reduce innovation by eliminat... (more story)
Former executives of a health technology company that went public via merger with a blank check company have reached a $10 million deal to settle claims they wiped out investors with a bankruptcy filing after ... (more story)
A new U.S. Supreme Court patent case that will require the justices to spell out what generic-drug makers can say when marketing drugs with so-called skinny labels will shape whether and how those companies us... (more story)
Digital Health & Technology More
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.
A California federal judge appeared skeptical Monday about dismissing school districts' claims that social media companies harmed them by getting their students addicted to their platforms, telling defense cou... (more story)
Masimo has urged a California federal court to turn down Apple's request for relief from its $634 million trial loss in the companies' patent infringement fight over the Apple Watch, arguing that the company h... (more story)
A California federal judge has thrown out artificial intelligence diagnostics company Tempus AI's patent infringement suit against medical test-maker Guardant Health, finding claims in the patents weren't pate... (more story)
A California federal judge refused to sign off on a $32 million deal to resolve a proposed class action accusing GoodRx of illegally sharing users' sensitive health data with fellow defendant Criteo and other ... (more story)
Policy & Compliance More
A group of 150 hospitals suing generic-drug makers for alleged price fixing in multidistrict litigation should hand over data on their drug purchases, the drugmakers have told a Pennsylvania federal court, arg... (more story)
The Sixth Circuit on Tuesday ruled that Ohio's lawsuit accusing pharmacy benefit managers of driving up prescription prices through rebate schemes belongs in federal court, saying in an opinion recommended for... (more story)
Public health experts are condemning a Texas Attorney General inquiry into Pfizer, UnitedHealth Group and others for allegedly tapping unlawful financial incentives behind childhood vaccines.
The Texas attorney general told a state court that a Delaware-based nurse practitioner and the organization she operates have shipped abortion pills to Texas, saying Tuesday that the defendants have publicly a... (more story)
A report issued by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that U.S. Customs and Border Protection sometimes failed to provide proper medical oversight for certain people in its custody, violating its ... (more story)
A Washington federal judge refused Monday to toss Novo Nordisk's lawsuit accusing telehealth platform Invigor Medical of falsely advertising Ozempic alternatives, ruling that the drugmaker has shown a "tangibl... (more story)