A New Jersey federal judge on Tuesday sentenced the former CEO of a now-defunct medical billing company to five years in prison, the statutory maximum penalty, for his role in a $212.5 million scheme to inflat... (more story)

A Massachusetts federal judge has foreclosed one of Abiomed's invalidity defenses in a case brought by rival medical technology firm Maquet over alleged infringement of a patent covering blood pump technology.

Twist Bioscience Corp. and two executives asked a California federal court to give preliminary approval to a $17 million deal they inked with investors to resolve class allegations the company misrepresented t... (more story)

The California attorney general's amicus brief in Art Center v. WCE and the California Medical Association's response highlight how the California appeals court's ruling could significantly affect the structur... (more story)

Health insurer Humana can't shed proposed class action claims it misled investors about the financial impact it would see from pent-up demand for healthcare deferred amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a Delaware fede... (more story)

A Tennessee federal judge has given final approval to a $179 million settlement between investors and Acadia Healthcare Co. Inc., ending a class action that alleged the company misled investors about the stren... (more story)

A Wisconsin federal judge has thrown back to state court a putative class action accusing healthcare providers Hospital Sisters Health Systems and Prevea Health Services of deploying tracking tools that illega... (more story)

A Federal Circuit panel erred when finding the U.S. International Trade Commission properly banned imports of Apple Watches with blood oxygen-monitoring features, the tech giant behind the devices said in a pl... (more story)

Connecticut-based fertility products manufacturer CooperSurgical Inc. has reached a settlement with a proposed class of in vitro fertilization patients and their partners, who claimed the company's defective p... (more story)

Mobile app analytics provider Kochava Inc. has agreed to halt the disclosure of sensitive location data without consumers' affirmative express consent to resolve the Federal Trade Commission's longstanding cla... (more story)

Delta Dental has agreed to pay $2.25 million to resolve the New York financial regulator's claims that the insurer maintained inadequate cybersecurity and breach response measures that enabled hackers to obtai... (more story)

Deloitte must face an inventor's trade secrets misappropriation claims accusing the consulting giant of ripping off her firm's proprietary vaccination management system and securing a multimillion-dollar gover... (more story)

The U.S. Supreme Court turned down a bakery company's bid for review of a union multiemployer pension withdrawal bill, the Fourth Circuit held a bonus plan was exempt from federal benefits law, and the Sixth C... (more story)

A Washington state appeals court revived a proposed class action by state employees alleging their benefit plan discriminatorily barred health coverage for GLP-1 medications treating obesity, finding a lower c... (more story)

Mylan Pharmaceuticals will pay $4.5 million to resolve allegations by the state of Maryland that Mylan acted anticompetitively when it ratcheted up costs of its portable auto-injectable EpiPen device that's us... (more story)

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is moving to tackle the "overmedicalization" of widely used mental health drugs and create pathways to enc... (more story)

A case before the California Supreme Court this week involving Gilead and HIV medications may create a new standard for negligence claims when a company fails to market a better drug.

The Georgia Court of Appeals considered whether a new trial is warranted in a couple's case alleging that a doctor's negligence led to the death of their infant son nine days after birth, questioning attorneys... (more story)