A week after a bankruptcy court approved a $46.75 million settlement between the DNA testing company 23andMe and data breach claimants, a coalition of more than 40 states announced Tuesday that they would share in an additional $18 million to resolve claims of unreasonable security practices.
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.
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent holding in Mullin v. Doe that courts lack jurisdiction to review temporary protect... (more story)
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The California Office of Health Care Affordability's proposed revisions to its cost and market impact review regul... (more story)
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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)
Artificial intelligence-based drug discovery company Chai Discovery on Tuesday revealed that it reached a $3.8 billion valuation after closing its latest funding round with $400 million in tow.
California-based Edwards Lifesciences and Singapore's Genesis Medtech agreed to pay a combined $12 million to settle claims from the Federal Trade Commission that Edwards attempted to evade the Hart-Scott-Rodi... (more story)
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Solstice Advanced Materials Inc. acquires specialty chemicals technology company Element Solutions Inc., Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. buys Crinetics Pharmaceuticals ... (more story)
Regeneron has told a Delaware federal judge there is new reason to preserve its $407 million win against Amgen over cholesterol drug bundling after a California federal judge found in an analogous case that th... (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)
A Missouri bankruptcy judge has told attorneys representing California the state can no longer press its data breach lawsuit against the reorganized 23andMe, finding the state court action is barred by the com... (more story)
A group of parents suing the state of Michigan over the way newborn blood samples are collected and stored has asked a federal judge to revive its claims by citing recently decided U.S. Supreme Court precedent... (more story)
Arbor Associates permanently beat patients' proposed negligence class action alleging their sensitive information was stolen following a 2025 data security incident that resulted in an uptick in spam calls, af... (more story)
The Seventh Circuit on Friday revived a proposed class action against an eyewear company accused of violating Illinois' biometric privacy law with its online "virtual try-on" tool, saying a lower court dismiss... (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)
The First Circuit has upheld a rule requiring all dogs imported into the U.S. to be at least six months of age, saying the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had shown it was a reasonable measu... (more story)
The federal government has backed Premera Blue Cross in its bid at the Ninth Circuit to overturn a Washington federal court's judgment that held the insurance company's coverage policy for gender dysphoria sur... (more story)
Allegheny Reproductive Health Center and other healthcare providers on Tuesday asked a Commonwealth Court judge to unfreeze money for Medicaid-funded abortions in Pennsylvania following the court's landmark ru... (more story)
Grocery giant Kroger urged an Ohio federal judge to toss a suit challenging the legality of an extra health plan fee it charged tobacco users, stating it complied with federal benefits law by giving workers a ... (more story)
Cutting off federal funding to Medicaid fraud units in New York and Hawaii could reshape the enforcement priorities of similar units across the country. The HHS watchdog has made clear the agency wants states ... (more story)
A Colorado injunction blocking a prescription drug pricing statute may have thrown a wrench into efforts in other states to limit drug costs for consumers through a new crop of state oversight boards.
A split Second Circuit panel ordered a detained Jamaican man facing deportation to be released on bail, and criticized a dissenting judge's conclusion that the man's life-threatening kidney disease and need fo... (more story)
The Second Circuit said Monday that a lower court had wrongly excluded plaintiffs experts from testifying about an alleged relationship between using Tylenol during pregnancy and autism spectrum disorder and a... (more story)
A Connecticut state judge Monday denied a radiology doctor and medical group's attempt for quick wins on $5 million malpractice claims surrounding a former Waterbury Hospital nurse's missed cancer diagnosis, a... (more story)