Expert Analysis

DOL Association Health Plan Rule Could Cut Employer Costs

The U.S. Department of Labor's proposed rule would redefine who may act as an employer for purposes of sponsoring a group healt...(read more)

FDA Classification Setback Bodes Well For Wound Care Cos.

A Georgia federal court's recent decision in MiMedx v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration constrains the FDA's analytical framew...(read more)

Defending Hospital Antisteering Clauses From DOJ Scrutiny

The Trump administration has recently made clear that pursuing antitrust challenges to antisteering provisions in hospital-insu...(read more)

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CVS To Split In 2, Unraveling Decade-Old Megamerger

CVS Health said Wednesday that it plans to split into two independent, publicly traded companies, separating its Aetna- and Caremark-led healthcare businesses from its roughly 9,000 retail pharmacy locations, reversing its...(read more)

Mallinckrodt Loses $9.5M Award, Wins Delay In Airgas Drug

A Delaware federal judge on Tuesday threw out Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals' $9.5 million jury award it won in an infringement case and instead blocked a competitor's inhaled nitric oxide treatment patent until after a pair...(read more)

Karyopharm OK To Borrow $25M In Fast-Track Ch. 11 Case

Cancer drug developer Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. on Tuesday secured a Texas bankruptcy judge's approval to borrow $25 million in Chapter 11 financing and solicit bids for its business, as the company looks to merge with ...(read more)

Healthcare REITs Funnel Billions Into Senior Housing In Q3

The two biggest healthcare real estate investment trusts in the U.S., Welltower Inc. and Ventas Inc., have invested a combined $26 billion this year in buying senior housing for their respective portfolios, as new construc...(read more)

MVP: Dudensing Law's Ed Dudensing

Ed Dudensing of Dudensing Law won a $110 million verdict in a case involving a dementia victim at a private equity-backed senior housing facility and a separate $15.75 million total jury verdict in a neglected senior case,...(read more)

Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 89 Firms

The lawyers chosen as Law360's 2026 MVPs stand out from their peers by notching significant achievements in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-setting transactions.

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Squires Grants 4 IPRs, Denies 6 Before Handing Over Power

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires on Tuesday instituted four inter partes reviews in what could be the final petitions for which he reviews the merits.

Meta Users Win Class Cert. In Pixel Healthcare Data Suit

A California federal judge certified four classes of Facebook users who allege Meta Platforms collected their personal health information through data tracking tools on healthcare providers' websites, rejecting the social ...(read more)

Judge 'Put Off' By Atty Fee Bid In $59.5M Menstrual App Deal

A California federal judge said Thursday that he'll give final approval to a $59.5 million settlement resolving class claims over a menstrual tracking app sharing sensitive health data with Google, but he cut the $19 milli...(read more)

Squires Grants 4 Patent Review Bids In Latest Bulk Order

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has greenlighted four new petitions seeking review of patents in his latest round of decisions, while turning down one on discretionary grounds.

Milliman Reaches $15.5M Deal In Life Insurance FCRA Suit

Risk management firm Milliman Inc. is set to pay $15.5 million to resolve a consumer class action accusing the company of peddling flawed information to life insurance companies, according to a proposed settlement that the...(read more)

OpenAI Sued Over Epilepsy Death Allegedly Tied To ChatGPT

​The parents of a Chinese national with epilepsy who died earlier this year sued OpenAI on Tuesday in California state court, alleging ChatGPT was effectively practicing medicine without a license when it designed a taperi...(read more)

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Abortion Measures Split State Voters In Midterm Election

Reproductive and gender-affirming care rights were on ballots in several states Tuesday night, as the Idaho electorate rejected a measure that would have overturned its antiabortion laws, while voters in Nevada and other s...(read more)

Va., Mo. Voters Deliver Wins For Abortion Rights

Supporters of abortion access won key victories Tuesday in Virginia and Missouri as voters across the country took up healthcare measures that will shape state laws on reproductive and gender-affirming care, according to p...(read more)

Youth File Fresh Appeal In Colo. Hospital Gender Care Suit

Transgender youth patients of Children's Hospital Colorado have brought yet another challenge to a judge's discharge of their contempt citation against the hospital for not resuming providing them medical gender-affirming ...(read more)

3M Inks $7.35B Deal To Settle Most PFAS Foam Claims

3M Co. announced Tuesday that it will pay up to $7.35 billion over nine years to resolve nearly all personal injury claims related to PFAS "forever chemicals" in firefighting foam.

PBM Says Fla. Collusion Suit Belongs In Federal Court

A pharmacy benefit manager accused by Florida's attorney general of colluding with a competitor to fix prescription drug reimbursement rates for pharmacies removed the state's suit to federal court, citing its work for fed...(read more)

Courts On Botox Price Negotiations, Grant Terminations, More

Law360 Healthcare Authority has AbbVie's IRA exemption win for Botox, a district court decision on federal grants, and other top news from the past week.