Defining The 'Superior' Bid In Pfizer-Novo Legal Battle
Pfizer and Novo Nordisk's bidding war and legal fight over obesity biotech company Metsera is raising questions around what legally constitutes a better deal when two companies are hell-bent on the same target.
Gov't Subpoena Powers Face Reckoning In Healthcare Battles
The judicial deference given to the government's power to issue investigative subpoenas is facing an unprecedented challenge in transgender care cases. Willingness by judges to question motives could lead to more subpoena challenges or impede worthy government investigations.
MAHA, Telehealth And Deals: The Forecast From HLTH
With the close of the annual HLTH conference in Las Vegas, Law360 Healthcare Authority talked with healthcare lawyers and business leaders about this year's big themes and what they see coming for a fast-changing industry.
Defining The 'Superior' Bid In Pfizer-Novo Legal Battle
Pfizer and Novo Nordisk's bidding war and legal fight over obesity biotech company Metsera is raising questions around what legally constitutes a better deal when two companies are hell-bent on the same target.
Gov't Subpoena Powers Face Reckoning In Healthcare Battles
The judicial deference given to the government's power to issue investigative subpoenas is facing an unprecedented challenge in transgender care cases. Willingness by judges to question motives could lead to more subpoena challenges or impede worthy government investigations.
MAHA, Telehealth And Deals: The Forecast From HLTH
With the close of the annual HLTH conference in Las Vegas, Law360 Healthcare Authority talked with healthcare lawyers and business leaders about this year's big themes and what they see coming for a fast-changing industry.
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A Delaware vice chancellor on Tuesday declined for the moment Pfizer Inc.'s emergency request to put Novo Nordisk's $9 billion bid for Metsera Inc. on hold, saying the time isn't yet at hand for the court's in... (more story)
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Intuitive Surgical urged the Ninth Circuit not to revive a surgical repair company's claims alleging it blocked third parties from refurbishing components for its popular da Vinci surgery robot, defending the ... (more story)
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. said on Wednesday it will acquire Clario Holdings Inc., a provider of endpoint data solutions for clinical trials, from a shareholder group led by Astorg, Nordic Capital, Novo Hol... (more story)
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In a flurry of recent legal activity, courts across the country have been drawn into the nation's most contentious healthcare debates over access to medication abortions and efforts to cap the cost of prescrip... (more story)
Attorneys from Goodwin Procter LLP and Wiggin and Dana LLP are teaming up to represent the Association for Accessible Medicines in its challenge to a Connecticut drug price cap set to take effect at the start of 2026.
New York’s highest court handed a loss to legal advocates who had hoped a mother’s suit over the ramifications of the death of her newborn baby would help overturn a 20-year-old precedent on prenatal torts. A ... (more story)
The Federal Circuit on Tuesday affirmed the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board's decision to uphold the firing of a general surgeon by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs after he raised concerns about co... (more story)
A divided Ninth Circuit panel sided with an Oregon anti-abortion group last week and reinstated its lawsuit challenging a state law that requires health plans to cover abortion and contraceptives.