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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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)
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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)
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)
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)
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)
Albertsons and Safeway ignored signs of problematic opioid prescriptions in Washington for years, an attorney for the state told a Seattle judge Monday during opening statements in a bench trial over allegatio... (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)
Johnson & Johnson has asked the Third Circuit to keep dismissed excessive fee claims out of a proposed class action alleging the company charged employees too much for a prescription drug benefits program, arg... (more story)
Northwell Health defeated a proposed class action alleging it hid cuts to workers' pension plans when converting to a cash-balance plan in the late 1990s, with a New York federal judge finding the hospital sys... (more story)
A D.C. federal court declined to bar the Federal Trade Commission from pursuing a consumer protection suit in Texas against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, finding WPATH failed to sh... (more story)
A Utah federal judge tossed a suit by workers who claimed a western U.S. health system kept an underperforming stable value fund in a retirement plan and greenlighted excessive management fees, ruling their ca... (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)
A Michigan federal judge on Wednesday dismissed an age discrimination claim brought by a professor of surgery against the University of Michigan board of regents and a hospital department chief, but kept intac... (more story)
The U.S. Supreme Court's January ruling in Berk, which held that a federal plaintiff needn't follow Delaware's procedural rules for medical malpractice cases, is set for its first test in a Maine case in which... (more story)