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What The 11th Circ.'s Qui Tam Ruling Left Unanswered

Although the Eleventh Circuit’s recent ruling in Zafirov v. Florida Medical Associates upheld the False Claims Act’s qui tam pr...(read more)

FTC Letters Expand Hospitals' Pricing Transparency Risks

A wave of warning letters recently sent by the Federal Trade Commission to healthcare service providers makes it clear that, in...(read more)

How Cos. Can Reassess Ad Tech After Wash. Pixel Use Ruling

The Washington Supreme Court's decision in Baker v. Seattle Children's Hospital, holding that the hospital website's use of Met...(read more)

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Two Swiss Healthcare Startups Raise IPOs Totaling $350M

Two Swiss-based health-related companies hit U.S. public markets on Friday after pricing initial public offerings that totaled a combined $350 million.

This Week's Healthcare Earnings: CVS, Novo And More

This was the week of health payors, with major names like CVS, Cigna, and Humana posting quarterly results. Law360 Healthcare Authority breaks down what to know from earnings this week.

Meet The Attorneys Guiding FuturHealth Through Ch. 11

A group of attorneys from Ice Miller LLP is guiding FuturHealth, a telehealth company focused on weight loss, through its Chapter 11 case as the company pursues a dual-track plan for an asset sale or reorganization.

FDIC Sued By Rural NY Hospital Over Failed Bank Loan

New York-based Community Memorial Hospital Inc. has hit the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation with a suit accusing it of wrongly refusing to insure or offset approximately $1.9 million in loan funds held at a failed Ge...(read more)

Meet The Attorneys Guiding Karyopharm's Ch. 11

A team of six attorneys from Sidley Austin LLP is steering the Chapter 11 case of cancer drug developer Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. as the company looks to merge with biotechnology firm Ayrmid and trim debt through a prep...(read more)

Glenmark's $30M Drug Price-Fixing Deal Gets Final OK

A Connecticut federal judge has granted final approval to a $29.6 million settlement between dozens of states and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals that resolves claims accusing the company of conspiring with competitors to drive u...(read more)

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Masimo, ITC Tell Justices To Skip Apple Watch Ban Appeal

Masimo Corp. and the U.S. International Trade Commission said Thursday that the U.S. Supreme Court should ignore Apple's arguments that the Federal Circuit degraded the agency's domestic industry requirement by sustaining ...(read more)

LA Cannabis Retailer Sued Over Email 'Spy Pixels'

A Los Angeles dispensary placed "malicious" code in marketing emails that spied on a consumer and recorded when she opened the messages and her location, forwarding the information to data-broker vendors, according to a Ca...(read more)

Stryker Shorted Wash. Workers On Breaks, Wages, Suit Says

A medical device company failed to provide Washington hourly workers with required meal and rest breaks, underpaid their wages and restricted their ability to discuss their pay, according to a proposed class action removed...(read more)

Judge Will Reduce 'Shocking' $88M Mesh Bellwether Verdict

A Massachusetts federal judge said Tuesday she will reduce an $88 million verdict awarded to an Alabama couple in the first bellwether hernia mesh trial against Medtronic subsidiary Covidien LP, saying the award appeared t...(read more)

MVP: Williams & Connolly's Enu A. Mainigi

Enu Mainigi of Williams & Connolly LLP represented SuperValu and Albertsons before an Illinois federal jury that cleared them of liability on claims they overcharged the government for prescription drugs, earning her a spo...(read more)

HHS Seeks To End Suit Over Aid Recipient Data Sharing

The Department of Health and Human Services is asking a New York federal judge to either rule in its favor or otherwise throw out a suit focused on whether HHS is allowed to share personal information with the Department o...(read more)

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Vt. Medical Center To Face Jury Trial In Retirement Plan Suit

A jury will decide whether the University of Vermont Medical Center saddled employees participating in its $1.76 billion retirement plan with underperforming funds and excessive fees, a Vermont federal judge ruled Friday, ...(read more)

Supplement Makers Say FDA Added Illegal Label Review

A health advocacy group and three dietary supplement sellers urged a D.C. federal judge Friday to rule the U.S. Food and Drug Administration overstepped when it rejected over a hundred label claims for supplement products ...(read more)

OpenAI Sued Over AI Attention Patent Infringement Claims

A Texas technology company has sued OpenAI, claiming it is infringing a set of patents covering artificial intelligence attention, the same day it sued Anthropic on similar claims.

Anthropic Accused Of Infringing AI Attention Patents

A Texas technology company sued Anthropic on Thursday claiming it was infringing a set of patents covering AI attention for training when working on its marquee chatbot model Claude.

Waffle House Tobacco Fee Suit Narrowed To Avoid Arbitration

A former Waffle House server wants to shrink her suit claiming the restaurant chain unlawfully charged workers who used tobacco more for health coverage to level a sole claim for planwide relief, after Waffle House moved t...(read more)

JB Hunt To Pay $3.2M To End Tobacco Fee Suit

Trucking company J.B. Hunt will shell out roughly $3.2 million to settle a proposed class action alleging workers who used tobacco were wrongly charged $15 per week more for healthcare, according to the terms of a deal fil...(read more)