Attorneys putting together big provider transactions today say they see a growing need for what they call a producer approach to their practice, in which they oversee law, finance, public messaging and internal coordination in tandem.
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 to lean in on criminal Medicaid fraud cases.
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.
Richard Herman
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)
Scott Liebman, Dominick DiSabatino and Cortney Inman
While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has taken a concrete step forward on reclassifying certain peptides, t... (more story)
Goodwin Procter LLP announced on Tuesday that it had hired a veteran life sciences attorney to co-chair its new San Diego office, which is slated to open later this summer.
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.
An attorney with nearly 25 years of experience in commercial and antitrust litigation has moved his practice to BakerHostetler's Philadelphia office after five years with Holland & Knight LLP.
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 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 Second Circuit on Wednesday revived a New York healthcare provider's suit accusing out-of-state Blue Cross Blue Shield licensees of underpaying insurance claims, saying the carriers' longstanding business ... (more story)
A group of local governments and health nonprofits urged a D.C. federal court Wednesday to block recent federal mandates requiring Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program grant recipients to incorporate abstinence e... (more story)
A medical clinic provider couldn't convince a North Carolina state appeals court to overturn a ruling that noncompete agreements for two former nurses were unenforceable, after a split panel ruled Wednesday th... (more story)
United Healthcare must pay $630,000 to a mother who challenged the insurance company's decision to deny coverage for her son's residential mental health treatment, a Utah federal judge ordered, after rejecting... (more story)
Massachusetts asked a federal judge to send its $100 million state False Claims Act lawsuit alleging overbilling by UnitedHealthcare back to state court, accusing the insurer of forum shopping with a theoretic... (more story)
The D.C. Circuit sided with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regarding its decision not to discard certain unfavorable surveys for Alignment Healthcare's Medicare Advantage plans, saying there is n... (more story)
A Massachusetts federal jury in the first bellwether trial over Covidien LP's hernia mesh products was told Wednesday that doctors were not warned about how quickly a safety feature could dissolve after the me... (more story)
A Florida judge agreed Wednesday to hold off on deciding a motion to stay proceedings in a breach of contract action brought by a telemarketing company that federal regulators accuse of selling $91 million in ... (more story)
The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed the conviction of a medical malpractice attorney for attempting to extort the University of Maryland Medical System out of $25 million, despite his argument that his self... (more story)