Busy doctors have embraced AI-powered devices that record patient conversations and generate visit notes. The expansion of ambient notetakers may also be exposing them to unexpected legal risks, including through inadvertent "bycatching" of conversations with sensitive information.
Despite a short week, healthcare dealmakers were busy at work, as Law360 counted at least four billion-dollar transactions involving names like BridgeBio and AstraZeneca. Here's a look at those deals and others.
A closely watched test of whether religious freedom laws can protect abortion rights is headed to the Indiana Supreme Court. Legal experts said the case "flips the usual script" on religious liberty protections.
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While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has taken a concrete step forward on reclassifying certain peptides, t... (more story)
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The year's second quarter brought several notable banking law developments to New York, including a proposal to al... (more story)
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The Texas Supreme Court decision in LabCorp v. Texas last month, finding that the state's False Claims Act require... (more story)
A New Jersey federal judge has refused to let generic-drug company Tris Pharma Inc. escape a suit claiming its attempt to sell a competing version of Jazz Pharmaceuticals' narcolepsy drug Xyrem infringes a series of patents.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday accused a former AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP employee of using nonpublic information to trade ahead of the company's $1.1 billion acquisition of vacc... (more story)
Handa Pharmaceuticals and Intas Pharmaceuticals are wrongly trying to bring to market drugs that would compete with Exelixis Inc.'s blockbuster cancer pill Cabometyx before patents on the medication expire, ac... (more story)
The U.S. Supreme Court clarified the pleading standard for induced infringement of skinny labels, and the Federal Circuit opened the door to increased damages for patent owners. Here's what you need to know ab... (more story)
A Texas federal jury has found that claims in four patents Invisalign maker Align Technology Inc. asserted against orthodontics company ClearCorrect were invalid, but the jurors also rejected ClearCorrect's an... (more story)
The Federal Circuit on Tuesday said it won't bring back claims in a pair of dental arch image analysis patents their owner accused Invisalign maker Align Technology Inc. of infringing, backing a lower court's ... (more story)
Two pharmacy benefit managers have told a Michigan federal judge that a trade association for small pharmacies should not be allowed to intervene in a price-fixing lawsuit brought by the state's attorney general.
An Illinois federal judge has refused to toss a putative class action accusing health information technology services provider Veradigm LLC of illegally divulging patient portal visitors' protected health info... (more story)
A Missouri bankruptcy judge entered an order Tuesday authorizing a $46.7 million settlement between the plan administration trust created under the Chapter 11 plan of DNA-testing company 23andMe and data breac... (more story)
The organizations best positioned for the cryptographic system migration deadlines and other requirements under President Donald Trump’s recent quantum executive orders will be those able to inventory their cr... (more story)
A California federal court has denied Medtronic Inc.'s attempt to ditch a roughly $382 million trial loss in an antitrust case accusing the company of maintaining its monopoly over a surgical device through co... (more story)
Following several U.S. Supreme Court terms teeming with reversals and rebukes of lower appeals courts, the justices this term found fault less often with rulings by circuit judges, who are likely becoming bett... (more story)
Retired U.S. Circuit Judge Paul R. Michel is backing Amgen against Sandoz's Fourth Circuit appeal, arguing in an amicus brief that the final say over now-nixed allegations of blocked biosimilar competition to ... (more story)
Adult family homes in Washington cannot use a state minimum wage exemption to deny wage-and-hour protections to caregivers who live where they work, the Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday, holding the car... (more story)
The full Seventh Circuit will hear Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier's initial appeal of a lower court's injunction blocking his state court lawsuit targeting medical groups' policies on youth gender-aff... (more story)
Hologic Inc., a medical technology company focused on women's health, has been hit with a proposed class action in Massachusetts federal court alleging sensitive personal data it held was exposed in a recent cyberattack.
Baxter International permanently defeated a proposed class action claiming the relatively low returns of the medical products company's employee retirement plan were evidence of mismanagement, after an Illinoi... (more story)
Recent U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suits show that enactment of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act has drawn scrutiny to a wider range of employment decisions and an increasing focus on individ... (more story)
Sam's Club and a former employee who alleged she suffered a miscarriage after the retailer failed to accommodate work restrictions related to her attempt to become pregnant through in vitro fertilization have ... (more story)
The Third Circuit partly revived a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center cardiologist's lawsuit over the professional backlash he faced for publishing an article criticizing race-based "affirmative action" i... (more story)
Two former employees of a Georgia-based healthcare company stole patient and caretaker compensation data days before leaving the company's Pueblo, Colorado, branch for one of its rivals, according to the healt... (more story)