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March 17, 2025
Full 7th Circ. Won't Revive Suit Over Late Medicaid Payments
The full Seventh Circuit has answered the "enormous question" of whether a Chicago hospital can sue the state of Illinois to force the managed-care organizations it contracts with to make timely Medicaid payments, concluding the hospital doesn't have a federal right to prompt payments for fear of turning federal trial courts into "de facto Medicaid claims processors."
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March 17, 2025
Yale Unit Questions Prospect Medical's Ch. 11 Sale Plan
Yale New Haven Health Services Corp. is questioning whether bankrupt hospital owner Prospect Medical Holdings Inc.'s attempt to sell its three Connecticut facilities through a Texas Chapter 11 proceeding will affect Yale New Haven's rights under a $435 million asset purchase agreement covering the same properties.
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March 17, 2025
Split 9th Circ. Won't Halt Federal Workers Reinstatement Order
A divided Ninth Circuit panel on Monday denied the Trump administration's bid for an immediate administrative stay of a California district court order requiring reinstatement of some probationary federal workers fired from six agencies, with the majority saying a pause "would disrupt the status quo and turn it on its head."
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March 17, 2025
May Trial Set For Ex-Conn. Official's New Corruption Charges
A Connecticut federal judge said Monday that former Constitution State budget official Konstantinos Diamantis and ex-lawmaker Christopher Ziogas will go to trial on May 7 for claims they respectively took and paid bribes to stop a state audit of Ziogas' fiancée, who has admitted to healthcare fraud.
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March 17, 2025
Yale Says Researcher's Omissions Doom $28M Incubator Suit
Yale University told a Connecticut state court that it sufficiently pled its counterclaims against a researcher who accused it of destroying his "life's work" by unplugging an incubator filled with $28 million in grants and private money's worth of genetic materials, arguing the researcher lied to get his job.
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March 17, 2025
Ore. Lawmakers OK $5B Insurer, Hospital Tax Extension
Oregon would extend medical provider and insurance assessments otherwise slated to expire, raising $5 billion for the state's healthcare programs over four years, under legislation passed Monday by the state Senate.
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March 17, 2025
Vituity Inks $8.75M Deal To End 401(k) Excessive Fee Suit
Healthcare management company Vituity has agreed to pay $8.75 million to resolve a proposed class action alleging it excessively charged workers $600 in annual retirement plan management fees in violation of federal benefits law, according to a California federal court filing.
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March 17, 2025
House Panel Probes Medical Residency Antitrust Exemption
The chair of the House Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel is looking into whether to do away with an antitrust exemption Congress granted over 20 years ago to the medical residency matching system, which the congressman said could be harming new doctors and even patients.
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March 17, 2025
Houston Midwife Arrested In Texas' 1st Criminal Abortion Case
A Houston-area midwife has been arrested after an investigation by the Texas attorney general's office for allegedly providing illegal abortions, Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday, the first such criminal charges brought since the state issued its near-total abortion ban.
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March 17, 2025
Feds Defend Prof's Deportation As Arnold & Porter Withdraws
Government lawyers told a Massachusetts federal judge Monday they did not disobey a court order halting the deportation of a Brown University doctor and professor with an H-1B visa, as a team of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP lawyers who lobbed that claim abruptly withdrew from the case.
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March 17, 2025
Seeger Weiss Atty Tapped To Lead Depo-Provera Plaintiffs
A Florida federal judge on Sunday selected Christopher Seeger of Seeger Weiss LLP to lead the team representing plaintiffs in the multidistrict litigation claiming Pfizer Inc. failed to adequately warn patients and doctors about the risk of brain tumors associated with the hormonal contraceptive drug Depo-Provera.
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March 17, 2025
4 Firms Guide Up To $1.14B Sale Of PE-Backed Biotech
Taiho Pharmaceuticals on Monday announced plans to acquire private equity-backed Swiss biotechnology company Araris Biotech for up to $1.14 billion in a deal built by four law firms.
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March 14, 2025
Looming Virginia AI Bill Likely Just Start Of State Law Flood
Virginia is on the brink of becoming the second state to regulate high-risk uses of artificial intelligence, a move that would kick-start the formation of a patchwork that is similar to the one emerging in the data privacy realm and that is expected to rapidly expand in the wake of the federal government's disavowal of stringent rules in the AI space.
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March 14, 2025
Ga. Panel Says COVID-Era Legal Shield Blocks Amputee's Suit
A divided Georgia Court of Appeals on Friday said a trial court should have dismissed a wrongful amputation suit against a Marietta hospital, holding that the patient who lost his right leg after being admitted for COVID-19 symptoms could not beat the legal immunity granted to the hospital by a pandemic-era state law.
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March 14, 2025
Judge Hands Landlord Win In Maryland Nurse's Eviction Case
A Maryland federal judge mostly sided with a landlord that was hit with a nurse practitioner's $1 million suit, which alleged that the landlord wrongfully locked her out of her place of business when she wasn't there and evicted her.
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March 14, 2025
Md. Judge Joins Calif. In Reversing Federal Workers' Firing
A Maryland federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of thousands of probationary employees who were abruptly fired from 18 federal agencies, saying the Trump administration's lack of required notice left states "scrambling" to pick up the pieces.
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March 14, 2025
4th Circ. Dubious Of Private Island's Win In Fair Housing Fight
The Fourth Circuit on Friday seemed poised to upend a lower court ruling siding with a gated community in a discriminatory housing suit brought by the developer of a proposed assisted living facility, with one judge lamenting a lack of analysis on whether the facility's accommodation request was necessary and reasonable.
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March 14, 2025
Ex-NJ Health Official Settles Suit Over COVID Whistleblowing
A former New Jersey health official's long-running suit alleging that he was fired for raising concerns about political favoritism connected to COVID-19 testing during the onset of the pandemic appears to have been settled, according to a docket notation.
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March 14, 2025
NC Ex-Doctor Gets 2.5 Years For Drug Test Billing Scheme
A 72-year-old doctor in North Carolina was sentenced Friday to two and a half years in prison and ordered to hand over $2 million in restitution for a fraudulent billing scheme involving medically unnecessary drug tests, prosecutors said.
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March 14, 2025
Antigua Clinic Accused Of Lying About 'Miracle' Cancer Cure
A company called ExThera Medical Corp. has been sued in California federal court over a cure, backed by a billionaire investor, marketed for metastatic cancer but was actually a "dangerous medical experiment."
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March 14, 2025
FTC Urges 8th Circ. Not To Pause Insulin Pricing Case
The Federal Trade Commission has urged the Eighth Circuit not to pause its in-house case accusing Caremark Rx, Express Scripts and OptumRx of artificially inflating insulin prices, telling the appeals court the pharmacy benefit managers have no chance of winning on their constitutional claims.
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March 14, 2025
Judge Vacates Baby Formula Trial Win For Abbott, Mead
A Missouri judge on Thursday threw out a jury verdict that cleared Abbott Laboratories and Mead Johnson of liability in a joint trial over claims their baby formula causes a serious condition in preterm infants, saying a new trial is necessary because the defense "intentionally violated the court's orders and rulings by improperly introducing the inadmissible evidence to the jury, time after time."
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March 14, 2025
Dr. Oz Pledges 'Upcoding' Crackdown If Confirmed At CMS
Dr. Mehmet Oz told lawmakers he would combat rising healthcare costs by showing there's a "new sheriff in town" opposed to so-called upcoding by Medicare Advantage plans, as he sought support Friday for his nomination to lead the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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March 14, 2025
Fla. Attys Go From Shooting Hoops To Suing Nursing Homes
Geoff Moore and Spencer Payne took their friendship from the basketball court to launching a new Orlando law firm focused on taking nursing home catastrophic injury and medical malpractice cases to trial. The duo recently talked to Law360 Pulse about their firm and how they hope to help clients.
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March 14, 2025
Sutter Health Reaches $4.3M Deal To End Retirement Suit
Nonprofit healthcare system Sutter Health will pay $4.3 million to settle a class action from workers alleging their employee retirement plan was saddled with excessive fees and poorly performing investments, according to filings in California federal court.
Expert Analysis
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What Trump's Order Means For The Legal Status Of IVF
An executive order signed by President Donald Trump last month signals the administration's potential intention to increase protections for in vitro fertilization services, though more concrete actions would be needed to resolve the current uncertainty around IVF access or bring about a binding legal change, says Jeanne Vance at Weintraub Tobin.
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Mitigating Tariff Risks For Healthcare In US And Canada
Healthcare stakeholders should take steps to evaluate the impact of cross-border tariffs, as the historically strong ties between Canada and the U.S. demonstrate the potential for real disruption and harm to the healthcare industry in both countries, say attorneys at Norton Rose.
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4 Ways Women Attorneys Can Build A Legal Legacy
This Women’s History Month, women attorneys should consider what small, day-to-day actions they can take to help leave a lasting impact for future generations, even if it means mentoring one person or taking 10 minutes to make a plan, says Jackie Prester, a former shareholder at Baker Donelson.
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Bid Protest Roundup: Prejudice, Injunctions, New Regulations
In this month's bid protest roundup, Markus Speidel at MoFo looks at three recent decisions that consider whether a past performance evaluation needs to show prejudice to be successfully challenged, the prerequisites for injunctive relief and the application of new regulatory requirements to indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts.
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A Judge's Pointers For Adding Spice To Dry Legal Writing
U.S. District Judge Fred Biery shares a few key lessons about how to go against the grain of the legal writing tradition by adding color to bland judicial opinions, such as by telling a human story and injecting literary devices where possible.
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What Advisory On Alcohol And Cancer May Mean For Cos.
While the federal government has yet to take concrete steps in response to a January advisory from the outgoing U.S. surgeon general on links between alcohol consumption and cancer, the statement has opened the door to potential regulatory, legislative and litigation challenges for the alcoholic beverage industry, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.
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What's At Stake In High Court Transgender Care Suit
The outcome of U.S. v. Skrmetti will have critical implications for the rights of transgender youth and their access to gender-affirming care, and will likely affect other areas of law and policy involving transgender individuals, including education, employment, healthcare and civil rights, say attorneys at ArentFox Schiff.
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6th Circ. Ruling Paves Path Out Of Loper Bright 'Twilight Zone'
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright ruling created a twilight zone between express statutory delegations that trigger agency deference and implicit ones that do not, but the Sixth Circuit’s recent ruling in Moctezuma-Reyes v. Garland crafted a two-part test for resolving cases within this gray area, say attorneys at Wiley.
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6 Laws Transforming Calif.'s Health Regulatory Framework
Attorneys at Hooper Lundy discuss a number of new California laws that raise pressing issues for independent physicians and small practice groups, ranging from the use of artificial intelligence to wage standards for healthcare employees.
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NIH Cuts To Indirect Costs May Stifle IP Generation
Although currently blocked by a preliminary injunction, the National Institutes of Health's new policy to cut down on indirect cost funding creates challenges for university research projects, and may hamper the development of intellectual property — which is considered an indirect cost — for years to come, say attorneys at Snell & Wilmer.
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Recent Cases Clarify FCA Kickback Pleading Standards
Two recently resolved cases involving pharmaceutical manufacturers may make it more difficult for False Claims Act defendants facing kickback scheme allegations to get claims dismissed for lack of evidence, say Li Yu at Bernstein Litowitz, Ellen London at London & Noar, and Gregg Shapiro at Gregg Shapiro Law.
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Opinion
Antitrust Analysis In Iowa Pathologist Case Misses The Mark
An Iowa federal court erred in its recent decision in Goldfinch Laboratory v. Iowa Pathology Associates by focusing exclusively on market impacts and sidestepping key questions that should be central to antitrust standing analysis, says Daniel Graulich at Baker McKenzie.
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Opinion
State FCAs Should Cover Local Fund Misuse, State Tax Fraud
New Jersey and other states with similar False Claims Acts should amend them to cover misappropriated municipal funding, and state and local tax fraud, which would encourage more whistleblowers to come forward and increase their recoveries, says Kenneth Levine at Stone & Magnanini.
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Anticipating Calif. Oversight Of PE Participation In Healthcare
A new bill recently introduced in the California Senate revives last year's attempt to increase oversight of healthcare transactions involving private equity groups and hedge funds, meaning that attorneys may soon need to assess the compliance status of existing management relationships and consider modifying contract terms, says Andrew Demetriou at Husch Blackwell.
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7 Tips For Associates To Thrive In Hybrid Work Environments
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
As the vast majority of law firms have embraced some type of hybrid work policy, associates should consider a few strategies to get the most out of both their in-person and remote workdays, says James Argionis at Cozen O’Connor.