Health

  • November 26, 2024

    CGL Carrier Seeks $1.2M In Inter-Insurer Injury Dispute

    A general liability insurer told a Michigan federal court that a professional liability insurer owes $1.2 million toward a $1.5 million settlement reached in an underlying lawsuit involving their mutual insured, a cardiovascular practice located in a Detroit hospital, arguing that the professional liability policy covered the claim.

  • November 26, 2024

    Mexico Floats Retaliation Against New Trump Tariffs

    Hours after President-elect Donald Trump threatened new tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum signaled that her government would respond with levies of its own Tuesday, imploring Trump to take a more diplomatic approach.

  • November 26, 2024

    Pa. Nursing Home Eying Sale Seeks Fraud Sentencing Delay

    The parent company for a troubled Western Pennsylvania nursing home asked a federal court to postpone a sentencing for defrauding state and federal healthcare programs so the company can keep trying to sell the facility, or at least relocate its residents over a longer period of time.

  • November 26, 2024

    Adult Day Care Tries To Duck Suit Over Autistic Man's Death

    An adult day care center urged a Florida court on Monday to dismiss a lawsuit over the death of an autistic man who was left alone in a hot transport van for hours, arguing that the man's sister does not qualify as his survivor for a wrongful death claim.

  • November 25, 2024

    Trump Vows Tariffs For Canada, Mexico, China On Day One

    President-elect Donald Trump announced on social media Monday that he will implement steep tariffs on America's allies Canada and Mexico, as well as China, immediately after taking the oath of office on Inauguration Day.

  • November 25, 2024

    Calif. Jury Delivers $35M Verdict In Eyedrop Trademark Row

    A Tennessee pharmaceutical company convinced a California federal jury that a rival owes it about $35 million for infringing its trademarks on brands of post-surgical eyedrops.

  • November 25, 2024

    At Trial, Ex-Clinic Head Accuses Seattle Hospital Of Race Bias

    A Black ex-clinical director told a Washington state jury Monday that a Seattle hospital owes him millions of dollars for failing to address a "culture of racism" targeting him and the patients of color he advocated for while leading a clinic with a purported mission of advancing equity.

  • November 25, 2024

    Hormone Therapy Co. Jilted Actress Over Image Use, Suit Says

    A commercial actress has accused a hormone treatment company and its affiliates of improperly using her image and likeness in promotional materials touting its therapies, telling a Texas state court the business "blatantly misappropriated" her personal brand.

  • November 25, 2024

    Missouri Gender-Affirming Care Ban Upheld As Constitutional

    A Missouri state judge rejected a legal challenge to the state's ban on providing gender-affirming care to minors and adults, finding Monday the court should defer to the Legislature given that challengers hadn't proven the restrictions violated the U.S. Constitution.

  • November 25, 2024

    Baltimore Atty Convicted Over $25M Hospital Extortion Plan

    A Baltimore federal jury on Friday convicted a prominent medical malpractice attorney on all charges in a case alleging he threatened the University of Maryland with bad publicity about "diseased" organs being transplanted into patients unless it paid him $25 million.

  • November 25, 2024

    Calif. Panel Scraps Ex-Medical Supply Exec's $533K Fee Win

    A California appeals court has found that an Orange County judge was wrong to order a medical supply company to pay out half a million dollars in legal fees to a former executive who a jury found took confidential files out the door with him.

  • November 25, 2024

    DEA And Anti-Pot Group Reject Accusations Of Collusion

    The Drug Enforcement Administration and a leading anti-cannabis-legalization advocacy group on Monday each pushed back against allegations that they colluded with each other in the run-up to administrative law judge hearings on a proposal to loosen federal restrictions on pot.

  • November 25, 2024

    Philly Hospital Must Pay Patient's Family $6.8M, Jury Finds

    Thomas Jefferson University Hospital must pay $6.8 million to the family of a woman who died from complications resulting from a procedure targeting a tumor, with a Philadelphia jury finding the hospital was negligent in its treatment.

  • November 25, 2024

    Philly Man Acquitted In $34M Pharmacy Kickback Case In NJ

    A Philadelphia man has been acquitted by a New Jersey federal jury of charges related to a $34 million medication kickback scheme involving three other pharmacy executives accused of paying marketers referral fees.

  • November 25, 2024

    Calif. Board Seeks Comment On AI Rules Amid Pushback

    The California Privacy Protection Agency on Friday opened the public comment period for its latest rulemaking package proposing expansive draft rules regulating technologies fueled by artificial intelligence — including in the employment, education, healthcare, consumer protection, banking and insurance contexts — which business groups have already criticized as being overly broad and burdensome.

  • November 25, 2024

    Medical Info. Co. Beats Junk Fax Suit Over Free E-Book Offer

    A medical information company has once again defeated a long-running Telephone Consumer Protection suit over unsolicited faxes it sent in 2013, with a West Virginia federal judge ruling the plaintiffs produced no evidence that the company got paid when recipients responded to their faxes.

  • November 25, 2024

    Final Buzzer Sounds On NBA Fraud Case With Doc's Sentence

    A Manhattan federal judge hit a Seattle-area doctor with five years in prison Monday for joining with the ringleader of the NBA's $5 million health billing fraud ring to submit fake invoices, the final sentencing in the sprawling case.

  • November 25, 2024

    5th Circ. Upholds Miss. Ban On Medical Pot Ads

    Marijuana dispensaries do not have protections under the First Amendment to advertise their products because the drug is still illicit under federal law, the Fifth Circuit ruled, tossing a lawsuit that sought to upend the state's tight regulations on cannabis ads.

  • November 25, 2024

    Colo. Firm Sued Amid Ownership Battle For Mental Health Co.

    In a fight over control of a business that provides mental health services to adopted children, the widow of one of the business' founders claims that a Denver law firm committed malpractice and unjustly enriched itself when it advised her rivals in the company's board of directors to file "baseless" lawsuits against her and ran up more than $1 million in bills.

  • November 25, 2024

    Jury Finds Natera Owes Guardant $292.5M In False Ad Suit

    A California federal jury on Monday awarded $292.5 million in actual and punitive damages to medical test maker Guardant Health after finding that its rival Natera falsely advertised its colorectal cancer test Signatera as superior to Guardant's competing product Reveal.

  • November 25, 2024

    Ex-Epstein Becker Healthcare Ace Joins Polsinelli Team

    Polsinelli has added a former Epstein Becker Green partner to its healthcare litigation team as a shareholder, where he'll bring experience in managed care, payor disputes and intellectual property to the firm's Nashville, Tennessee office.

  • November 22, 2024

    Trump Makes Picks For FDA, CDC And Surgeon General

    President-elect Donald Trump on Friday ​​revealed his nominations for several health agencies, picking Johns Hopkins surgeon and professor Dr. Marty Makary for Food and Drug Administration commissioner, former Rep. Dave Weldon, R-Fla., as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director, and Fox News contributor Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for surgeon general.

  • November 22, 2024

    Natera's Conduct 'Despicable,' Guardant Says As Trial Wraps

    Guardant urged a California federal jury at the close of its false advertising trial Friday to make rival Natera pay it hundreds of millions of dollars, saying the competitor's misrepresentation of the companies' competing cancer detection tests was "despicable," while Natera countered it was Guardant that used deceptive marketing.

  • November 22, 2024

    Pam Bondi's 'Greatest Hits' As Florida Attorney General

    In her eight years as attorney general of Florida, Pam Bondi — who has been tapped by President-elect Donald Trump as attorney general — took on pill mills and telemarketing scams targeting the state's large elderly population, while also leading GOP state efforts to battle the Obama administration.

  • November 22, 2024

    MultiCare $2M Deal Ends Fed's ADA Missing Interpreter Probe

    MultiCare Health Systems of Washington will set aside $2 million in compensation to end a federal civil rights investigation into complaints the hospital operator failed to provide interpreters for deaf-blind patients before and after surgery.

Expert Analysis

  • 8 Childhood Lessons That Can Help You Be A Better Attorney

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    A new school year is underway, marking a fitting time for attorneys to reflect on some fundamental life lessons from early childhood that offer a framework for problems that no legal textbook can solve, say Chris Gismondi and Chris Campbell at DLA Piper.

  • Navigating Complex Regulatory Terrain Amid State AG Races

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    This year's 10 attorney general elections could usher in a wave of new enforcement priorities and regulatory uncertainty, but companies can stay ahead of the shifts by building strong relationships with AG offices, participating in industry coalitions and more, say Ketan Bhirud and Dustin McDaniel at Cozen O’Connor.

  • Sublimit And Policy Interpretation Lessons From Amtrak Case

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    The recently settled dispute between Amtrak and its insurers over sublimit coverage illustrates that parties with unclear manuscript policies may wish to avoid litigation in favor of settlement — as the New York federal court declined to decide the case by applying prior term interpretations, says Laura Maletta at Chartwell Law.

  • Opinion

    This Election, We Need To Talk About Court Process

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    In recent decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has markedly transformed judicial processes — from summary judgment standards to notice pleadings — which has, in turn, affected individuals’ substantive rights, and we need to consider how the upcoming presidential election may continue this pattern, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • Navigating HHS' New Reproductive Healthcare Privacy Rule

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    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' new final rule regarding protections for the privacy of reproductive health information will require regulated entities to grapple with difficult questions about whether to comply with state law requirements or federal privacy prohibitions, says Christine Chasse at Spencer Fane.

  • Mental Health Parity Rules: Tips For Plans And Issuers

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    Following federal agencies' release of final mental health parity rules, plan sponsors and health insurance issuers should develop protocols for preparing compliant nonquantitative treatment limitation comparative analyses, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

  • Series

    Playing Diplomacy Makes Us Better Lawyers

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    Similar to the practice of law, the rules of Diplomacy — a strategic board game set in pre-World War I Europe — are neither concise nor without ambiguity, and weekly gameplay with our colleagues has revealed the game's practical applications to our work as attorneys, say Jason Osborn and Ben Bevilacqua at Winston & Strawn.

  • Mental Health First Aid: A Brief Primer For Attorneys

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    Amid a growing body of research finding that attorneys face higher rates of mental illness than the general population, firms should consider setting up mental health first aid training programs to help lawyers assess mental health challenges in their colleagues and intervene with compassion, say psychologists Shawn Healy and Tracey Meyers.

  • Opinion

    FTC's Report Criticizing Drug Middlemen Is Flawed

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    The Federal Trade Commission's July report, which claims that pharmacy benefit managers are inflating drug costs, does not offer a credible analysis of PBMs, and its methodology lacks rigor, says Jay Ezrielev at Elevecon.

  • Series

    Collecting Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The therapeutic aspects of appreciating and collecting art improve my legal practice by enhancing my observation skills, empathy, creativity and cultural awareness, says attorney Michael McCready.

  • Plan Sponsors Must Prep For New Mental Health, Drug Rules

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    To comply with newly published health insurance rules requiring parity between access to mental health and substance use services compared to medical and surgical services, employers with self-insured plans will need to update third-party administrator agreements and collect data, among other compliance steps, say attorneys at Kilpatrick.

  • Navigating The Complexities Of Cyber Incident Reporting

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    When it comes to cybersecurity incident response plans, the uptick in the number and targets of legal and regulatory actions emphasizes the necessity for businesses to document the facts underlying the assumptions, complexities and obstacles of their decisions during the incident response, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.

  • Takeaways From Novo Nordisk's Fight For Market Exclusivity

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    Generic competitors’ challenge to Novo Nordisk’s patents in hopes of capturing a portion of the rapidly expanding Type 2 diabetes and obesity treatment market highlights the role of abbreviated new drug application litigation, inter partes review and multidistrict litigation in patent defense, says Pedram Sameni at Patexia.

  • Secret Service Failures Offer Lessons For Private Sector GCs

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    The Secret Service’s problematic response to two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump this summer provides a crash course for general counsel on how not to handle crisis communications, says Keith Nahigian at Nahigian Strategies.

  • A Primer On Navigating The Conrad 30 Immigration Program

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    As the Conrad 30 program opens its annual window to help place immigrant physicians in medically underserved areas, employers and physicians engaged in the process must carefully understand the program's nuanced requirements, say Andrew Desposito and Greg Berk at Sheppard Mullin.

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