By Gianna Ferrarin

Law360 Healthcare Authority looks at a First Circuit decision backing criminal penalties on a psychiatrist convicted for submitting $19 million in fraudulent claims, the Second Circuit's conclusion that the No Surprises Act doesn't provide a private right of action for enforcing independent dispute resolutions awards, and other appellate rulings affecting the healthcare industry over the last week.

By Jeff Overley

The federal judge steering multidistrict opioid litigation is lacing into major pharmacy benefit managers for asking the Sixth Circuit to abruptly reverse a key ruling, denouncing their "spurious insinuations" about his motives and warning of disarray if they successfully break up the MDL's consolidated suits.

By Rae Ann Varona

Walmart has agreed to pay $50 million to settle the U.S. Department of Justice's nearly 6-year-old lawsuit in Delaware federal court alleging the big-box retailer helped spur the nationwide opioid crisis by unlawfully dispensing controlled drugs from its pharmacies, the department announced Friday.

By Jeff Overley

An Ohio federal judge knowingly flouted a Sixth Circuit rebuke by forcing two of the largest remaining defendants in multidistrict opioid litigation to either "settle for enormous sums or litigate for years hundreds of cases," says a Thursday petition urging the appeals court to intervene.

By Gianna Ferrarin

Law360 Healthcare Authority looks at Johnson & Johnson's $5.5 billion commitment in a proposed settlement to resolve thousands of suits alleging its talcum powder products caused ovarian cancer, a New Jersey state court's order that Cooley LLP pay $25.4 million in litigation over its representation of a biotech founder, and other key resolutions in healthcare litigation over the last week.