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May 20, 2025
A former operations and regional sales manager for a mobile medical diagnostic company has agreed to plead guilty to taking part in a $70.6 million conspiracy to pay kickbacks to doctors who ordered unnecessary brain scans, Massachusetts federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.
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May 20, 2025
Information technology workers who accused New York University's academic medical center of improperly classifying them as exempt from earning overtime wages can proceed as a collective, a federal judge ruled, finding they showed they were all subject to the same pay policies and practices.
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May 20, 2025
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's plan to expand surprise inspections of overseas drug manufacturing plants is a legitimate enforcement threat that should be taken seriously, even as the agency adjusts to a future with a smaller workforce.
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May 16, 2025
Shields Health Group Inc., which runs dozens of MRI and surgical centers around New England, has agreed to pay around $15 million to resolve claims in a proposed class action stemming from a data breach that compromised the personal information of over 2 million people.
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May 15, 2025
A California federal judge on Wednesday refused to rethink her earlier order forcing Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to give a limited deposition in privacy litigation over a Facebook tool's alleged collection of patient health information, rejecting Meta's arguments that other executives are better suited to testify.
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May 14, 2025
A Florida man who operated a health monitoring company geared toward keeping substance-addicted people from relapsing has admitted to bilking investors out of $5 million by misstating interest in the firm, the U.S. attorney's office in Philadelphia said.
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May 14, 2025
Jamie Anderson said it's important to find a mission-driven company to join — and when that mission aligns with an attorney's personal life, it's even more inspiration to work hard and contribute to the success of the business.
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May 13, 2025
Becton Dickinson has accused Baxter International of willfully infringing six of its patents for infusion pump technologies used to deliver medications to patients, telling a Delaware federal court that marketing materials for a Baxter infusion pump platform touted several Becton inventions.
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May 13, 2025
An unnamed plaintiff is urging a Washington state judge to give final blessing to an up to $6.75 million settlement to end allegations that a Seattle hospital system deployed source code on its website that divulged patients' private health information to Google and Facebook, with class counsel requesting another $5 million in fees.
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May 13, 2025
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board will not review whether a real-time interpretation patent for those hard of hearing is invalid after finding that only a quarter of Samsung's challenge could be successful, which isn't worth the full trial mandated by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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May 13, 2025
Since the overturning of Roe, abortion medications have become the most common method in the U.S. of ending a pregnancy. A co-founder of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine talks about the new legal battles over mifepristone, state shield laws, and a colleague facing criminal charges for sending abortion drugs through the mail.
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May 13, 2025
Goodwin Procter is continuing to grow its resources in the life sciences practice with the recent addition to the Boston office of an attorney who has gone back to private practice after more than seven years as an in-house counsel for Johnson & Johnson and Moderna.
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May 12, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to address for the first time Thursday the propriety of universal injunctions, a tool federal judges have increasingly used to broadly halt presidential orders and policy initiatives, and whose validity has haunted the high court's merits and emergency dockets for more than a decade.
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May 12, 2025
Telemedicine-focused deal activity is poised for a transformative shift in 2025 as strategic buyers increasingly seek companies that embed artificial intelligence across their platforms, according to a new report from tech investment bank Drake Star.
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May 07, 2025
A Texas federal judge on Wednesday refused to reverse a U.S. Food and Drug Administration decision to remove Eli Lilly & Co.'s popular weight loss drug from a national shortage list, denying a request from pharmacies that produce copycat doses of the drug and entering judgment in favor of the FDA.
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May 07, 2025
Samsung Electronics subsidiary Harman International has agreed to acquire Masimo Corp.'s consumer audio division, Sound United, for $350 million in cash, with Masimo taking a financial hit on the business it acquired three years ago for about $1 billion.
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May 05, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an opportunity to hear a First Amendment challenge to Mississippi's policy outlawing medical marijuana advertisements, effectively preserving a circuit court decision that upheld the state's ban.
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May 02, 2025
Boston Scientific evaded safety regulations to market a defective spinal cord stimulator and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration rubber-stamped those alterations in an instance of "agency capture," according to a California federal lawsuit filed by a patient suffering from ongoing pain after the device was implanted.
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May 01, 2025
DaVita Inc. is facing at least two proposed class actions over a data breach the kidney care provider announced in April, with current and former patients alleging Wednesday in Colorado federal court that data thieves have already engaged in identity theft and fraud while DaVita has yet to offer details.
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May 01, 2025
The Justice Department is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a petition over the eligibility of telemedicine patents it's accused of infringing, but it said that if the petition is granted, it plans to argue the patents shouldn't have been invalidated as abstract.
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May 01, 2025
British women's healthtech company Chiaro Technology Ltd. is relying on three attorneys from DLA Piper LLP as it seeks recognition of its insolvency in the United Kingdom by a Delaware bankruptcy court.
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April 29, 2025
Pharma giant Eli Lilly is taking a new tack in its efforts to protect its lucrative weight-loss drugs by raising allegations that telehealth competitors are engaged in illegal corporate practice of medicine.
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April 24, 2025
The Fourth Circuit has declined an electronic medical records firm's request for the appellate court to rethink a panel's decision to dismiss its appeal of an order forcing the company to let a nursing data business access its patient information.
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April 22, 2025
Genetic testing company 23andMe has received significant interest in the Chapter 11 auction for its assets, its counsel told a Missouri bankruptcy judge Tuesday at a hearing where it received final approval of a $35 million financing package to fund its bankruptcy case.
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April 21, 2025
A group of pediatric dental practices in North Carolina have accused their longtime business consultant of "hijacking" several website domains after they canceled his contract, saying he's trying to use the domains as leverage in unrelated negotiations.