Health

  • February 10, 2025

    Medical System Illegally Rounds Workers' Time, Suit Says

    A county hospital system employs a policy that modifies when workers clock in and out to avoid paying them all the wages they are owed, which can result in missed overtime pay, a proposed class and collective action filed Monday in Ohio federal court said.

  • February 10, 2025

    UnitedHealth Says Fed Suit Imperils Deal's Many Benefits

    UnitedHealth Group and home health and hospice giant Amedisys Inc. responded to the U.S. Department of Justice's merger challenge Friday by telling a Maryland federal judge that the government is taking quotes out of context, focusing on "artificially narrow geographic markets" and misjudging market realities.

  • February 10, 2025

    PBMs Fight To Keep Mich. AG's Opioid Suit In Federal Court

    Pharmacy benefit managers' work on behalf of federal health insurance plans entitles them to keep Michigan's lawsuit over their role in the opioid crisis in federal court, the companies told a federal judge last week.

  • February 10, 2025

    Judge Wary Of Doctor's Bid To Halt WWE Accuser's Info Hunt

    A Connecticut judge on Monday appeared skeptical of a celebrity doctor's bid to end an information request by a woman separately accusing World Wrestling Entertainment and its founder Vince McMahon of sex trafficking, hinting that the doctor probably cannot raise potential federal litigation as a shield against a state trial court discovery probe.

  • February 10, 2025

    Jazz Pharma Drops Last Defendant From Epidiolex Patent Suit

    Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. has reached an agreement to dismiss all claims and counterclaims with the last remaining defendant in its consolidated lawsuits over patents covering its epilepsy treatment Epidiolex, according to a filing from the company in New Jersey federal court.

  • February 10, 2025

    Harvard Immunity For Body Part Thefts 'Gnaws' At Justice

    A judge on Massachusetts' highest court said Monday it's "problematic" that a state law could shield Harvard Medical School from liability in a suit by family members of people whose remains were allegedly sold off in parts by a rogue mortician.

  • February 10, 2025

    Wash. Justices Won't Review Workers' $3.3M Meal Break Win

    A class of hospital workers can keep a $3.3 million award in a closely watched case over uncompensated meal breaks, after the Washington Supreme Court decided it won't take on a hospital's bid to overturn a lower state appellate court's ruling that rejected the argument that the workers had already been paid.

  • February 10, 2025

    UnitedHealthcare Fined $3.4M In NC Over Billing Shortfalls

    UnitedHealthcare of North Carolina Inc. and its insurance affiliate got fined $3.4 million by the Tar Heel State's insurance regulator for failing to follow its own policies for negotiating with out-of-network providers to keep extra costs off of its policyholders.

  • February 10, 2025

    NJ Hospital Hit With Class Claims Over Retirement Plan Fees

    A New Jersey health system has been accused of mismanaging its employees' retirement funds, according to a proposed class action filed by one of its employees in Garden State federal court.

  • February 10, 2025

    Trump Buyout Plan Still On Hold As Unions Cite 'Confusion'

    A Boston federal judge on Monday extended his hold on President Donald Trump's federal worker buyout program as he weighs a request from unions to block the so-called Fork Directive, which promises months of pay to government employees who resign their posts.

  • February 10, 2025

    House Dems Form Rapid Response Litigation Working Group

    House Democrats announced on Monday a new litigation initiative to confront the Trump administration and the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, which has been slashing federal funding, from stopping some government services and firing workers without Congressional approval.

  • February 10, 2025

    Mass. Judge Temporarily Blocks NIH Funding Cuts

    A Massachusetts federal judge issued a temporary hold Monday on a Trump administration plan to slash grant funding provided by the National Institutes of Health after 22 states sued to block the cuts.

  • February 10, 2025

    Trump Admin Violating Order To Unfreeze Funds, Judge Says

    A Rhode Island federal judge ruled Monday the Trump administration is not complying with the court's temporary restraining order barring a freeze on funding for federal grants and programs, ordering the administration to immediately restore the frozen funds.

  • February 07, 2025

    Trump Isn't Obeying Order To Unfreeze Funds, States Say

    The Trump administration is not complying with a temporary restraining order barring a freeze on funding for federal grant and aid programs, a coalition of states told a Rhode Island federal judge Friday, asking the court to enforce its order and to enter a stiffer injunction blocking the funding freeze.

  • February 07, 2025

    Medicaid Ride Co. Says Colo. Can't Back Suspension

    A transportation company is asking a Colorado state judge on Monday to block a suspension barring it from providing rides to state Medicaid members, claiming a state agency doesn't have authority to suspend its work based on allegedly bogus accusations of fraud.

  • February 07, 2025

    SPAC Market Hums Again Following Multiyear Downturn

    Special purpose acquisition companies are once again asserting their presence in the capital markets and M&A landscape, forming new vehicles at the highest pace in three years — albeit in leaner form than in the last cycle, when many deals ended in busts.

  • February 07, 2025

    Pa. Medical Pot Co. Beats Consultant's IP Breach Claims

    A Pennsylvania federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by a consultant claiming that his methods for growing plant tissue samples was stolen by a medical cannabis company he worked with, ruling that the consultant's system was not a protected trade secret.

  • February 07, 2025

    CFPB's Medical Debt Rule Halted For 90 Days By Texas Judge

    A Texas federal judge has issued a 90-day halt on an approaching effective day for a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule banning medical debt from credit reports, a day after the agency's new leadership said it needed time to consider the rule trade groups have sued to end.

  • February 07, 2025

    Ga. Hospital Should Face Insurer's Suit Over Double-Billing

    A Georgia federal judge has significantly trimmed a lawsuit accusing a regional hospital of double-billing for medical services provided to two people burned in an incident at a South Carolina manufacturing plant.

  • February 07, 2025

    Del.'s Quiet Ambition To Tweak Chancery, Stem Feared DExit

    Anxious over claims that stockholder-tilted decisions by Delaware's Court of Chancery will trigger more companies to follow Tesla, SpaceX, Meta and Dropbox to other states, Delaware policymakers are taking a hard look at the venerable business court's processes, hoping to slow a feared rush to DExit.

  • February 07, 2025

    Off The Bench: Trump Bans Trans Athletes, NCAA Falls In Line

    In this week's Off The Bench, the NCAA changes course to accommodate a presidential ban on transgender women athletes, Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter is sentenced for his gambling-driven embezzlement, and women's soccer players get restitution for abuse at the hands of their coaches and teams.

  • February 07, 2025

    Trump Drops High Court Opposition To Transgender Care Ban

    The federal government on Friday changed course in a U.S. Supreme Court case challenging a Tennessee ban on transgender care for minors, telling the court that the Trump administration's position is that the statute does not deny equal protection on the basis of sex.

  • February 07, 2025

    Chicago Hospital Network Inks $850K Retirement Suit Deal

    A Chicago-area hospital system will pay $850,000 to settle an ex-worker's proposed class action alleging it violated federal benefits law by failing to leverage the size of its $1.8 billion employee retirement plan to lower recordkeeping fees, according to filings Friday in Illinois federal court.

  • February 07, 2025

    9th Circ. Says State Farm Unit Owes No More For Leaks

    A State Farm unit owes no additional payment to a California medical center for lost income from water damage, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled, agreeing with a lower court that the insurer paid the amount due under the policy.

  • February 07, 2025

    Taxation With Representation: Kirkland, Latham, Skadden

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, Triumph Group goes private via Berkshire Partners and Warburg Pincus affiliates, alternative asset manager TPG buys Altus Power, Globus Medical buys Nevro Corp., and Honeywell separates its automation and aerospace technology businesses, resulting in the formation of three distinct companies.

Expert Analysis

  • Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners

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    Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

  • Considering Possible PR Risks Of Certain Legal Tactics

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    Disney and American Airlines recently abandoned certain litigation tactics in two lawsuits after fierce public backlash, illustrating why corporate counsel should consider the reputational implications of any legal strategy and partner with their communications teams to preempt public relations concerns, says Chris Gidez at G7 Reputation Advisory.

  • It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers

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    Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional “trusted adviser” paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient — they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.

  • Vertex Suit Highlights Issues For Pharma Fertility Support

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    Vertex Pharmaceuticals' recent lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' interpretation of the Anti-Kickback Statute is influenced by a number of reproductive rights and health equity issues that the Office of Inspector General should address more concretely, including in vitro fertilization and fertility preservation programs, says Mary Kohler at Kohler Health Law.

  • Opinion

    CMS' New 'Breakthrough' Device Policy Shows Little Promise

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    The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ recent procedural notice outlining a new Medicare coverage pathway for breakthrough medical devices will, at best, be a failed experiment and, at worst, result in Medicare beneficiaries denied access to innovative treatments, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

  • Assessing Algorithmic Versus Generative AI Pricing Tools

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    A comparison of traditional algorithmic pricing models and those powered by generative artificial intelligence can help regulators and practitioners weigh the pros and cons of relying on large language models to price products or services, say Maxime Cohen at McGill University, and Tim Spittle and Jimmy Royer at Analysis Group.

  • SBA Proposal Materially Alters Contractor Recertification

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    The Small Business Administration's new proposed rule on recertification affects eligibility for set-aside contracts, significantly alters the landscape for mergers and acquisitions in the government contracts industry, and could have other unintended downstream consequences, says Sam Finnerty at PilieroMazza.

  • A Preview Of AI Priorities Under The Next President

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    For the first time in a presidential election, both of the leading candidates and their parties have been vocal about artificial intelligence policy, offering clues on the future of regulation as AI continues to advance and congressional action continues to stall, say attorneys at Mintz.

  • How Companies Are Approaching Insider Trading Policies

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    An analysis of insider trading policies recently disclosed by 49 S&P 500 companies under a new U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule reveals that while specific provisions vary from company to company, certain common themes are emerging, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.

  • 11 Patent Cases To Watch At Fed. Circ. And High Court

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    As we head into fall, there are 11 patent cases to monitor, touching on a range of issues that could affect patent strategy, such as biotech innovation, administrative rulemaking and patent eligibility, say Edward Lanquist and Wesley Barbee at Baker Donelson.

  • Managing Community Health Needs Assessments: A Checklist

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    To guide nonprofit hospitals and health systems through their required community health needs assessment every three years, this checklist outlines the steps for 12 phases of the process.

  • How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations

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    Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.

  • 7th Circ. Rulings Offer Employee Vaccine Exemption Guidance

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    Dawn Solowey and Samantha Brooks at Seyfarth explain how two recent Seventh Circuit rulings in Passarella v. Aspirus and Bube v. Aspirus could affect litigation involving employee vaccine exemptions, and discuss employer best practices for handling accommodation requests that include both religious and secular concerns.

  • Pa. Health Employers Must Prep For Noncompete Restrictions

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    Newly enacted legislation in Pennsylvania prohibits certain noncompete covenants for healthcare practitioners in the state beginning next year, creating compliance challenges that both employers and employees should be aware of, say attorneys at Buchanan Ingersoll.

  • Opinion

    Congress Must Do More To Bolster ERISA Protections

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    As the Employee Retirement Income Security Act turns 50 this month, we applaud Congress for championing a statute that protects worker and retiree rights, but further action is needed to ban arbitration clauses in plan provisions and codify regulations imperiled by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Chevron ruling, say Michelle Yau and Eleanor Frisch at Cohen Milstein.

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