A dozen independent Arkansas pharmacies on Tuesday hauled Express Scripts into Missouri state court, accusing the pharmacy benefit management giant of continuously shorting them on prescription reimbursements ... (more story)

Chubb, Liberty Mutual and Lloyd's of London units and other insurers can't get off the hook for covering the remainder of third-party payor opioid lawsuits against Endo International, a representative for a tr... (more story)

Health insurance provider Molina Healthcare and two of its executives have, for now, escaped a shareholder suit accusing them of misleading investors about medical costs and internal controls before the compan... (more story)

Biotechnology firm Electra Therapeutics plans to make its public debut this week through an estimated $325 million initial public offering steered by Cooley LLP and Latham & Watkins LLP.

A state court judge has denied class certification to a group of residents in western North Carolina in their healthcare antitrust case, saying they fell short of showing classwide impact in the form of allege... (more story)

The Federal Circuit on Friday upheld a Pennsylvania federal judge's decisions clearing Globus Medical Inc. of infringing Moskowitz Family LLC spinal surgery tool patents, agreeing that language used in the pat... (more story)

The full U.S. International Trade Commission is set to look at parts of an agency judge's ruling in favor of medical technology company Stryker Corp. in a fight against imports it said infringed its patents on... (more story)

A new data-sharing deal between federal drug and securities officials means drugmakers better have their story straight when they tell investors and the public about U.S. Food and Drug Administration approvals.

A Florida federal court order requiring hospital ratings nonprofit Leapfrog to revoke poor safety grades it issued to five hospitals owned by Tenet Healthcare Corp. violated the First Amendment, Leapfrog told ... (more story)

Apple Inc. has told the U.S. Supreme Court that the Federal Circuit improperly "lowered the bar" for meeting the U.S. International Trade Commission's domestic industry requirement in patent disputes, by affir... (more story)

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has instituted 10 more Patent Trial and Appeal Board petitions, largely in the pharmaceutical space.

A Delaware federal judge has denied a bid from medical equipment maker Kurin for a new trial after a jury found it owed Magnolia Medical $1.6 million for infringement of three patents covering blood culture co... (more story)

Trucking company J.B. Hunt has struck a deal to settle a proposed class action alleging workers who used tobacco were wrongly charged $15 per week more for healthcare, parties told an Arkansas federal court in... (more story)

An Eighth Circuit panel on Tuesday revived a doctor's suit seeking an order limiting a Minnesota state medical board's ability to investigate him for his public statements related to the COVID-19 pandemic, fin... (more story)

A New Hampshire federal judge has refused to let Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. escape a proposed class action accusing it of anticompetitively locking healthcare providers already using its urology device... (more story)

Connecticut has won the dismissal of a challenge to its mandatory school vaccination laws, beating through both litigation and legislative amendments allegations by parents that the state's rollback of vaccine... (more story)

Gibson Dunn and Dunn Isaacson Rhee attorneys presented arguments Tuesday at the First Circuit over whether drug manufacturers can intervene in a challenge to a now-suspended drug rebate program for hospitals. ... (more story)

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has asked a federal court not to dismiss the state's lawsuit accusing pharmacy benefit managers including Express Scripts and Optum of abetting the opioid epidemic, arguin... (more story)