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July 27, 2026
The health diagnostics company formerly known as Sema4 has reached a $4.8 million settlement with investors accusing the company of misleading them about a nonexistent, artificial intelligence-driven data platform it claimed to operate.
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July 27, 2026
AbbVie Inc. and collaborator Ironwood Pharmaceuticals urged a New Jersey federal court to bar India-based generic-drug maker Alkem Laboratories from selling generic versions of their branded constipation drug while associated patents are active, arguing Alkem would violate patent law by doing so.
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July 27, 2026
A heart care clinic with multiple locations in the Chicago area has been hit with proposed class privacy claims from patients who say their personal identifying and health information has been compromised in a data hack that the provider failed to publicly acknowledge for six months.
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July 27, 2026
A U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge allowed a California-based health and life insurance services company to amend its complaint to address questions about whether it qualified as an eligible employer to claim a $50,000 employee retention tax credit refund.
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July 27, 2026
A healthcare industry group representing pharmacy benefit managers lost its initial bid to challenge a California state law restricting their business practices, after a federal judge determined its complaint didn't go far enough to prove standing for the group representing PBMs, which intermediate between drugmakers, pharmacies and insurers.
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July 27, 2026
A Michigan federal judge ruled Friday that Nationwide Insurance may proceed with its declaratory judgment lawsuit against the Oxford Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Center and the parents of a 5-year-old boy killed at the facility, noting that the insurance coverage dispute addresses issues separate from pending state civil and criminal cases involving the center.
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July 27, 2026
In the first half of 2026, lawsuits taking aim at recent federal shifts in cannabis policy, a federal ban on marijuana users owning firearms and purported residency criteria in state cannabis licensure programs were argued in multiple courts across the country.
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July 27, 2026
Weill Cornell Medicine reached a settlement on Monday with Manhattan federal prosecutors to end a criminal investigation into allegations that the prestigious medical and graduate school failed to prevent one of its doctors from sexually abusing patients for more than a decade.
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July 24, 2026
The Seventh Circuit on Friday refused to revive a woman's claims that Abbott Laboratories failed to warn about the dangers of a Similac-brand infant formula her baby drank before dying of a serious gastrointestinal disease, saying she failed to show that her suggested alternative warning would have saved her baby.
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July 24, 2026
A Virginia federal judge held that a 2023 regulation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration unlawfully placed prescribing restrictions on the abortion drug mifepristone, agreeing with a group of abortion providers that the agency inadequately addressed burdens on the healthcare system.
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July 24, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge refused on Friday to give Griffin Health Services Corp. a loss in its lawsuit over allegedly inadequate warnings on Novo Nordisk insulin pens, finding the hospital raised triable questions about whether the company failed to alert nurses to contamination risks and criticizing Novo for filing multiple summary judgment motions.
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July 24, 2026
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday that the investigation into the ongoing cyclospora outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce has now expanded into four more states, bringing the total to nine.
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July 24, 2026
Neuroscience has become an increasingly common feature of criminal litigation, shaping everything from death penalty mitigation to juvenile sentencing. Yet many of the assumptions surrounding brain science in the courtroom remain wrong, Fordham Law School Professor Deborah Denno told Law360.
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July 24, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court has considered dozens of emergency petitions involving executive policies since President Donald Trump's return to office. While justices often defend their emergency rulings as stop-gap measures, people at the center of those cases — who've lost their legal status, jobs, or federal funding — say that even interim decisions have had lasting effects on their lives.
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July 24, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge has thrown out for good a proposed nationwide class action alleging Zoetis Inc. hid the dangerous side effects of its canine osteoarthritis drug, finding the complaint failed to plead the plaintiffs relied on any misrepresentations to their dogs' detriment.
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July 24, 2026
A coalition of U.S. lawmakers from New Mexico and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., have introduced legislation that would guarantee that tribal nations have equal access to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Emergency Preparedness program.
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July 24, 2026
In the second half of 2026, Connecticut courts are being called upon to decide closely watched issues such as whether the state's largest hospital group violated federal disability and age discrimination laws when requiring providers over age 70 to undergo mandatory cognitive tests.
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July 24, 2026
Wellstar Health System Inc. will pay $4.25 million to resolve a proposed class action alleging it used tracking and collection tools to share confidential health information with Meta Platforms and Google without patients' consent, according to a federal court filing.
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July 24, 2026
A Massachusetts mental health legal advocacy committee has filed a lawsuit against the state's department of correction, claiming it was denied access to data about health services provided in one state prison by a private contractor.
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July 24, 2026
Novo Nordisk Inc. asked a New Jersey federal court Friday to block rival Eli Lilly & Co. from running ads allegedly comparing their respective GLP-1 drugs using "outdated" clinical trials and "false superiority messages," arguing the ads are damaging its reputation and misleading consumers.
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July 24, 2026
A Texas federal judge pared some claims from a proposed class action alleging that a surgical company wrongly imposed a surcharge on the health plans of workers who used tobacco, while opening discovery on other allegations she found had stated a claim for violating federal benefits law.
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July 24, 2026
In one of the most-watched cases for product liability so far this year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that failure-to-warn claims about the alleged cancer risks of Monsanto's widely used pesticide Roundup are barred by federal law. Social media titans were also rocked by the first verdicts delivered in cases alleging mental health harms to youth.
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July 24, 2026
Surgery Partners, an owner and operator of short-stay surgical facilities, said Friday it has reached a deal to sell its stake in two Idaho hospitals for nearly $800 million to Salt Lake City, Utah-based Intermountain Health.
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July 24, 2026
CVS urged New York and Michigan federal courts to toss separate suits brought by hospital operators accusing the health giant of diverting savings from the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program to itself, saying the suits purport to raise key questions about the program when they actually concern simple contract disputes.
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July 24, 2026
Recently proposed U.S. Department of Labor regulations that would encourage e-delivery of employee health plan documents are winning plaudits from both sides of the benefits bar for potentially streamlining the process and augmenting online transparency. Here are three things to know about the DOL's proposal.