AI, Funding, Policy Top Of Mind For Health Execs At HLTH
With a unicorn mascot, a performance by rapper Busta Rhymes and celebrity guests, healthcare conference HLTH 2024 likes to party. But executives who spoke to Law360 Healthcare Authority at the Las Vegas event are all business when it comes to investor funding, AI and the regulatory environment.
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Masimo Corp. has sued its founder for allegedly conspiring with an investment firm and company stockholder to manipulate a shareholder vote in order to maintain his seat on the medical technology company's board of directors.
Officers and directors of Moderna face shareholder derivative allegations that they overstated how effective the company's RSV vaccine candidate was as the pharmaceutical giant sought regulatory permission to ... (more story)
A Texas nonprofit corporation that coordinates healthcare mostly for privately insured patients does not qualify for tax-exempt status because its business fails to help the larger community, the Fifth Circuit... (more story)
Owners of an Asheville, North Carolina, hospital accused of understaffing its emergency room and driving up wait times say the county suing them for unjust enrichment is actually trying to get paid twice for h... (more story)
Revance Therapeutics has settled a distribution-related dispute with customer Teoxane SA, potentially clearing the path for its planned $924 million acquisition by skincare company Crown Laboratories.
The Second Circuit affirmed Thursday that a lower court properly halted a group of healthcare providers from pursuing thousands of arbitrations against State Farm as part of an alleged massive fraudulent schem... (more story)
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A Minnesota federal judge has recused himself from a patent dispute between Teleflex and Medtronic he has handled since 2019, saying he was "at a loss" on how to proceed after the Federal Circuit faulted his i... (more story)
A Connecticut federal judge has given his final approval to a class action settlement that requires Merritt Healthcare Advisors to pay thousands of people whose personal information was exposed in a data breach.
Indian healthcare services platform Glocal and bankrupt digital health services company UpHealth may be on the verge of resolving their bitter dispute over an ill-fated merger that resulted in a $115 million a... (more story)
A Delaware investment company wants the Third Circuit to affirm a lower court ruling that refused to enforce an approximately €4.2 million arbitral award issued in a dispute over failed plans for a French medi... (more story)
An Apple attorney told a federal jury in Delaware on Monday that the company is willing to accept only a token damage award from Masimo Corp. for the health tech company's infringement of Apple's smartwatch, b... (more story)
Google, Meta Platforms and Criteo have asked a California federal court to cut them loose from litigation alleging that GoodRx improperly shared patients' protected health information with the tech companies, ... (more story)
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The candidates vying to replace Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who carved out a national reputation as an antitrust champion, present starkly different visions on whether to build upon his tenure or... (more story)
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has asked a New York federal judge to order a weight loss-focused telehealth company to comply with a subpoena issued in connection with the SEC's investigation into... (more story)
A California federal judge has upheld Ontrak founder Terren Peizer's first-of-its-kind insider trading conviction, holding that jurors had "more than enough evidence" to determine he based a $20 million share ... (more story)
An Ohio hospital defeated a former nurse's lawsuit claiming he was forced out after the medical center rejected his request for a religious exemption from its COVID-19 vaccination policy, with a federal judge ... (more story)
Private Medicare insurers collected an estimated $4.2 billion in extra federal payments last year from in-home health assessments they conducted, even though the evaluations led to no treatment, according to a... (more story)
A hospital system on Friday urged a North Carolina federal court to dismiss whistleblower claims from former executives alleging the system excessively paid physicians to make referrals in order to receive Med... (more story)