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Rare DOJ Military Bias Suit Shows Peril Of Co. Admissions

Although the government rarely litigates Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act claims against ... (more story)

Mass. UHC Fraud Suit Signals States' Medicaid FCA Push

Massachusetts' recently filed False Claims Act suit alleging UnitedHealthcare misrepresented the health status of ... (more story)

FDA Draft Guidance Maps Payor Strategy For Psychedelics

Recently revised guidance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will operationalize a framework permitting dr... (more story)

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Teva Can't 'Literally Whine' Of Being Held To DOJ Admissions

A Pennsylvania federal judge has taken Teva to task for trying to avoid being held to its admissions of price-fixing in a $225 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, ruling that Humana can use... (more story)

Regeneron Says Drug Approval Irrelevant In Antitrust Case

Regeneron told a Delaware federal court the recent regulatory approval of a new cholesterol drug is irrelevant to its case accusing Amgen of bundling Repatha with other medications, as the court mulls an injun... (more story)

Fenwick, Latham Lead Scribe Therapeutics' $129M IPO

Early-stage biotechnology firm Scribe Therapeutics began trading publicly on Friday after raising $129 million in its upsized initial public offering steered by Fenwick & West LLP and Latham & Watkins LLP.

CVS Seeks Toss Of Hospitals' 340B Suits In NY, Mich.

CVS urged New York and Michigan federal courts to toss separate suits brought by hospital operators accusing the health giant of diverting savings from the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program to itself, saying t... (more story)

Texas Lab, Investors To Pay $24M In COVID-19 Testing Scheme

Owners of a Dallas medical testing laboratory and their investors will altogether pay $24 million to resolve allegations that they ran afoul of the False Claims Act by submitting fraudulent claims to Medicare ... (more story)

Kirkland, Sullivan & Cromwell Steer $2B ArisGlobal Deal

Dassault Systèmes has agreed to acquire ArisGlobal, an AI-driven software provider for the life sciences industry, from private equity firm Nordic Capital for up to $2 billion, the companies said Thursday.

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Full Fed. Circ. Won't Review Apple's ITC Loss Against Masimo

The full slate of Federal Circuit judges will not reconsider a panel's determination that Apple has infringed Masimo Corp.'s blood oxygen monitor patents in a high-profile case that led to some Apple Watch imp... (more story)

Apple Can't Get Judge To Toss Masimo's $634M Patent Verdict

Apple has lost its bid to dodge a jury's finding that it owes $634 million for infringing a Masimo Corp. patent after a California federal judge rejected the tech giant's challenge to how the court construed a... (more story)

Pa. Hospital Must Face Bulk Of Website Pixel Tracking Row

A Pennsylvania federal judge has mostly refused to toss a putative class action accusing Warren General Hospital of illegally deploying tracking technology that divulged website visitors' private health inform... (more story)

Fed. Circ. Vacates $12.7M Copyright Award Against Gov't

The Federal Circuit on Thursday vacated a $12.7 million copyright award against the federal government over unauthorized copies of software for a project on military health records, holding that the trial judg... (more story)

23andMe Bankruptcy Plan Bars Data Breach Suit In Calif.

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)

Families Cite Geofence Ruling In Newborn Blood Testing Case

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)

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Judge Mulls Pausing Medicaid Work Rule For 'Frail' Recipients

A Massachusetts federal judge said Tuesday he anticipates deciding by the end of the week whether the Trump administration will have to pause part of a new rule states must follow in determining whether medica... (more story)

Nursing Facility Pays $15M In Calif. AG's Understaffing Suit

Sweetwater Care and its affiliates agreed to resolve the California attorney general's consumer protection suit alleging they understaffed their skilled nursing facilities in more than 14,000 instances, exposi... (more story)

Med Center To Pay $200K To End EEOC Disability Bias Probe

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Tuesday that a California medical center has agreed to pay $200,000 to wrap up an investigation into a nurse's claim that it violated disability bias law b... (more story)

Albertsons Opioid Trial Told Of Needles, ODs In Library

A witness in Washington's case accusing Albertsons Cos. Inc. of fueling the state's opioid crisis testified at a bench trial Monday that problem drug use was evident in a city library system she's led for near... (more story)

Wash. Panel Revives Island Health Wage, Break Class Action

A Washington Court of Appeals panel has reinstated a worker's proposed class action accusing public hospital district Island Health of denying employees meal breaks and illegally rounding time worked when calc... (more story)

Cigna Must Face Pa. Suit Over Portal Health Data Tracking

A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday allowed a group of Cigna health plan participants to pursue most of their claims alleging the company unlawfully disclosed their protected health information for marketin... (more story)