Health

  • June 26, 2025

    Justices Say SC Medicaid Patient Can't Sue To Pick Provider

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a patient can't challenge South Carolina's decision to kick Planned Parenthood from the state Medicaid program because it includes abortions among its services.

  • June 25, 2025

    TCPA Litigants Brace For 'Seismic Shift' After Deference Blow

    The U.S. Supreme Court's backing of broad judicial review for the crush of regulatory orders interpreting the Telephone Consumer Protection Act is poised to turn the litigation landscape on its head, as key statutory determinations that have long been viewed as settled matters are suddenly ripe for scrutiny. 

  • June 25, 2025

    Cigna Says Bristol-Myers Delayed Cancer Drug Generic

    Cigna has launched an antitrust suit in New York federal court accusing Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and its Celgene subsidiary of fraudulently obtaining patents, filing sham litigation and paying off generic-drug makers to maintain a monopoly on their blockbuster blood-cancer drug Pomalyst.

  • June 25, 2025

    OTC Pills Are Opioid In Disguise, Consumer Says

    A Georgia company that produces an over-the-counter supplement branded as "ZaZa" was hit with a proposed class action Tuesday from a consumer who said the supplement's active ingredient is a highly addictive substance with effects comparable to opioids, which the manufacturer has hidden from consumers.

  • June 25, 2025

    Anti-Aging Biotech Startup Minovia Inks $180M SPAC Merger

    Minovia Therapeutics Ltd., an Israeli startup developing treatments for age-related decline, plans to go public in the U.S. at a $180 million valuation by merging with special purpose acquisition company Launch One Acquisition Corp., both parties announced Wednesday.

  • June 25, 2025

    Michigan Man Gets 2 Years In 'Despicable' Pill, Fraud Scheme

    A Michigan resident was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison by a Massachusetts federal judge who called the defendant's role in a prescription pill smuggling and pandemic aid fraud scheme "despicable."

  • June 25, 2025

    Late Conn. Doc's Estate To Defend Insemination Fraud Cases

    The patients of a recently deceased Connecticut fertility doctor have asked a state court to substitute his estate as the defendant in their lawsuit, which claims the doctor secretly inseminated women with his own sperm in the 1980s.

  • June 25, 2025

    Feds Say Vet Failed To Back VA Malpractice Claim At Trial

    The U.S. government is urging a Washington federal court to give it a win following a bench trial on a suit brought by a Navy veteran and former Department of Veterans Affairs nurse alleging that malpractice by her VA psychiatrist led to an episode in which she stabbed her mother with a knife.

  • June 25, 2025

    Ohio Judge Halts Insurance Broker's Biz Amid AG's Fraud Suit

    Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost secured a temporary restraining order Wednesday against an insurance broker he accused of pulling a rug out from under first responders and leaving them hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills that should have been covered.

  • June 25, 2025

    Trans Worker Says Metal Co.'s Health Plan Discriminatory

    A subsidiary of Kaiser Aluminum discriminated against transgender employees by including an exclusion in its health plan barring coverage for medical treatments related to gender-affirming care, according to a new suit filed in Washington federal court.

  • June 25, 2025

    CVS Fights Ruling In Del. Rejecting Coverage For Opioid Suits

    An attorney for CVS Health Corp. told Delaware's Supreme Court on Wednesday that a lower court cited inapplicable precedent to dismiss the pharmacy chain's suit seeking coverage for medical provider claims against it arising from the opioid epidemic.

  • June 25, 2025

    Hospital Slams Novo Nordisk's Insulin Pen Suit Sanctions Bid

    Connecticut's Griffin Hospital says Novo Nordisk's attempt to score sanctions in a lawsuit about insulin pen contamination should be rejected because no law requires the healthcare facility to lay out its adversary's possible defenses when pleading its claims.

  • June 25, 2025

    CVS PBM Hit With $95M Judgment For Overbilling Medicare

    A Pennsylvania federal judge on Wednesday ruled that CVS's pharmacy benefits manager owes the government $95 million for overbilling Medicare Part D-sponsored drugs, leaving the door open for the amount to be tripled later.

  • June 25, 2025

    K&L Gates Adds Powers Pyles Pharma Litigator To DC Team

    K&L Gates LLP said Wednesday it has brought on a pharmaceutical attorney from Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville PC who worked for nearly a decade as a pharmacist and has handled pharmacy law matters for more than 15 years.

  • June 25, 2025

    How An Ex-AUSA's Compliance Savvy Ended A Kickback Case

    An attorney drew upon his past as a federal prosecutor in New Jersey and as a healthcare compliance counsel to get all charges dropped against a doctor accused of accepting close to $150,000 in bribes through Insys Therapeutics for "sham" speaker program engagements.

  • June 24, 2025

    Arkansas Insurance Dept. Fights Teamsters Plan's ERISA Suit

    The Arkansas Insurance Department is looking to sink a challenge to a state insurance regulation filed by a Teamsters healthcare plan, telling an Illinois federal judge that the regulation isn't preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and, besides, the plan can't sue the department.

  • June 24, 2025

    Fla. Nonprofit Leaders Charged In $100M Fraud Scheme

    A Florida federal grand jury has charged the founder of a special needs nonprofit and its accountant with multiple counts of fraud stemming from a scheme to steal $100 million from the organization, alleging they diverted money through a slush fund used to pay for personal expenses.

  • June 24, 2025

    Minn. Water Co. Prevails In Retained Limit Coverage Row

    A water purification company that's faced a bevy of product liability lawsuits over a disinfectant product needs to pay only one $5 million retained limit before a Chubb unit's coverage obligations under umbrella policies potentially kick in for one of the underlying cases, a Minnesota federal court ruled.

  • June 24, 2025

    Health Data Co. Must Face Revised Investor Fraud Suit

    A Connecticut federal judge won't toss an amended class action claiming a healthcare technology company misled investors about a data platform it claimed to operate that didn't actually exist, ruling that statements about the platform's capabilities are not inactionable, forward-looking statements.

  • June 24, 2025

    4th Circ. Tosses Trans Man's Appeal Over Canceled Surgery

    The Fourth Circuit declined to revive a transgender man's constitutional claims against a religious hospital run by the University of Maryland Medical System over a canceled hysterectomy for gender dysphoria, concluding Tuesday that it couldn't grant further relief, and refused to consider a "late-breaking" argument for emotional distress damages.

  • June 24, 2025

    Abbott Hit With Genetic Privacy Suit Over Hiring Practices

    Abbott Laboratories was sued Tuesday in Illinois federal court by a former worker alleging the company's onboarding materials asked for his family's medical history in violation of a state law aimed at protecting residents' genetic information.

  • June 24, 2025

    Medical Pot Backers Urge Neb. High Court To Scrap Challenge

    The campaign behind a successful effort to decriminalize and regulate medical marijuana in Nebraska is urging the state's highest court not to revive a legal challenge backed by state officials seeking to void the voter-approved legalization policies.

  • June 24, 2025

    Medline Can't Get $2.4M Tax Incentive, Wash. Panel Affirms

    Medline did not qualify for a $2.4 million remittance of sales tax paid toward the construction of a state warehouse, a Washington state appeals panel affirmed Tuesday, saying the medical supplier failed to show that it merited a key tax incentive.

  • June 24, 2025

    Calif. AG Asks 9th Circ. To Undo Limits On Pay-For-Delay Ban

    California enforcers on Monday asked the Ninth Circuit to overturn a district court's decision that a state law restricting "reverse payment" settlements between brand-name and generic-drug makers cannot be used to regulate deals that were struck outside the Golden State.

  • June 24, 2025

    AI Healthcare Startup Abridge Raises $300M Series E

    Generative artificial intelligence company Abridge has raised $300 million in a fresh round of capital, the company announced Tuesday.

Expert Analysis

  • Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises

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    “No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.

  • Opinion

    High Court Must Acknowledge US History Of Anti-Trans Laws

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    Despite Justice Amy Coney Barrett's claim to the contrary during oral arguments in U.S. v. Skrmetti, U.S. governments at every level have systematically discriminated against transgender people, and the U.S. Supreme Court must consider this historical context in upcoming cases about transgender issues, says Paisley Currah at the City University of New York.

  • How Design Thinking Can Help Lawyers Find Purpose In Work

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    Lawyers everywhere are feeling overwhelmed amid mass government layoffs, increasing political instability and a justice system stretched to its limits — but a design-thinking framework can help attorneys navigate this uncertainty and find meaning in their work, say law professors at the University of Michigan.

  • The Fate Of Biden-Era Clinical Study Guidance Under Trump

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    Draft guidance about the study of sex and gender differences in medical product development issued by the outgoing Biden administration currently faces significant uncertainty and litigation potential due to the Trump administration's executive orders and other actions, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

  • Biden-Era M&A Data Shows Continuity, Not Revolution

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    While the federal antitrust agencies under former President Joe Biden made broad claims about increasing merger enforcement activity, the data tells a different story, with key claims under Biden coming in at the lowest levels in decades, say attorneys at Covington.

  • 10 Issues To Watch In Aerospace And Defense Contracting

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    This year, in addition to evergreen developments driven by national security priorities, disruptive new technologies and competition with rival powers, federal contractors will see significant disruptions driven by the new administration’s efforts to reduce government spending, regulation and the size of the federal workforce, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.

  • Compliance Pointers For DOJ's Sweeping Data Security Rule

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    A new Justice Department rule broadly restricts many common data transactions with the goal of preventing access by countries of concern, and with an effective date of April 8, U.S. companies must quickly assess practices related to employee, customer and vendor data, says Sam Castic at Hintze Law.

  • Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: February Lessons

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    In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses five federal appellate court class certification decisions and identifies practice tips from cases involving breach of life insurance contracts, constitutional violations of inmates and more.

  • Series

    Competitive Weightlifting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The parallels between the core principles required for competitive weightlifting and practicing law have helped me to excel in both endeavors, with each holding important lessons about discipline, dedication, drive and failure, says Damien Bielli at VF Law.

  • Axed ALJ Removal Protections Mark Big Shift For NLRB

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    A D.C. federal court's recent decision in VHS Acquisition Subsidiary No. 7 v. National Labor Relations Board removed long-standing tenure protections for administrative law judges by finding they must be removable at will by the NLRB, marking a significant shift in the agency's ability to prosecute and adjudicate cases, say attorneys at Proskauer.

  • 11th Circ. TCPA Ruling Signals Erosion Of Judicial Deference

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    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit recently came to the rescue of the lead generation industry, striking down new regulations that were set to go into effect on Jan. 27, a decision consistent with federal courts' recent willingness to review administrative decisions, say attorneys at Troutman.

  • The Case For Compliance During The Trump Administration

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    Given the Trump administration’s shifting white collar enforcement priorities, C-suite executives may have the natural instinct to pare back compliance initiatives, but there are several good reasons for companies to at least stay the course on their compliance programs, if not enhance them, say attorneys at Riley Safer.

  • Opinion

    Undoing An American Ideal Of Fairness

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    President Donald Trump’s orders attacking birthright citizenship, civil rights education, and diversity, equity and inclusion programs threaten hard-won constitutional civil rights protections and decades of efforts to undo bias in the law — undermining what Chief Justice Earl Warren called "our American ideal of fairness," says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • Dispelling 10 Myths About Health Provider-Based Compliance

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    Congress appears intent on requiring hospitals to submit provider-based attestations for all off-campus outpatient hospital locations, so now is the time for hospitals to prepare for this change by understanding common misconceptions about provider-based status and proactively correct noncompliance, say attorneys at McDermott.

  • A Look At HHS' New Opinion On Patient Assistance Programs

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    A recent advisory opinion from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General follows a recent trend of blessing patient assistance program arrangements that implicate the Anti-Kickback Statute, as long as they are structured with appropriate safeguards to minimize the risk of fraud and abuse, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.

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