With a degree in social work, Ashley Lunkenheimer has combined her love of social causes with her passion for law to lead the legal and compliance efforts at a home healthcare company that has a special approach.

A high-stakes case that will determine whether the U.S. government should face patent infringement claims over Moderna's COVID-19 vaccines and Labcorp's appeal of a nine-figure patent verdict against it are am... (more story)

A group of generic-drug makers facing price-fixing claims brought by dozens of state attorneys general asked a Connecticut federal judge to bar or limit the use of terms like "Big Pharma" or "rising costs of p... (more story)

The North Carolina state health plan said on Tuesday that it will add Atrium Health to its list of in-network providers next year after a public showdown over the nonprofit health system's exclusion from the p... (more story)

Insurance brokers are in court fighting a CMS moratorium on new registrations for agents and brokers from entering Affordable Care Act exchanges. The businesses are also feeling the effects of canceled coverag... (more story)

Obesity-focused biopharmaceutical company Corxel Pharmaceuticals Inc. on Monday unveiled plans to go public by merging with special-purpose acquisition company Amanat Acquisition Corp. in a deal expected to ge... (more story)

A California federal judge said Thursday that he'll give final approval to a $59.5 million settlement resolving class claims over a menstrual tracking app sharing sensitive health data with Google, but he cut ... (more story)

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has greenlighted four new petitions seeking review of patents in his latest round of decisions, while turning down one on discretionary grounds.

Risk management firm Milliman Inc. is set to pay $15.5 million to resolve a consumer class action accusing the company of peddling flawed information to life insurance companies, according to a proposed settle... (more story)

​The parents of a Chinese national with epilepsy who died earlier this year sued OpenAI on Tuesday in California state court, alleging ChatGPT was effectively practicing medicine without a license when it desi... (more story)

The full Ninth Circuit declined to reconsider an appellate panel's recent decision reviving a surgical repair company's antitrust suit alleging Intuitive Surgical blocked third parties from supplying parts for... (more story)

Intuitive Surgical said in its quarterly earnings report Tuesday that it reached a $450 million settlement to resolve a hospital class action alleging it monopolized the market for servicing its da Vinci surgi... (more story)

The Colorado Supreme Court declined Thursday to take up transgender youth patients' challenge to a Denver judge's ruling that discharged their contempt citation against Children's Hospital Colorado for not res... (more story)

The federal contractor that runs an immigration detention center near Denver is coming out swinging against Colorado's attempt to kill its suit challenging a state law requiring extra inspections, saying its c... (more story)

Emergency medical technicians' qualified immunity from negligence claims in Washington does not extend to driving ambulances, a divided state Supreme Court held Thursday, ruling that the transportation of pati... (more story)

A Service Employees International Union affiliate's tardiness while challenging a nursing home employee's firing barred the union's grievance from arbitration, the nursing home argued in Minnesota federal cour... (more story)

A Trump administration bid to create additional barriers to Medicaid eligibility was rejected Thursday by a Massachusetts federal judge, who ruled that Congress did not delegate to the executive branch the tas... (more story)

The U.S. Department of Labor's employee benefits arm unveiled a final rule Thursday that requires pharmacy benefit managers — which act as intermediaries between drugmakers, pharmacies and insurers — to make n... (more story)