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Latest News in Life Sciences
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March 16, 2026
Judge Tosses Kaiser Whistleblowers' Claims After $556M Deal
A California federal court on Monday officially dismissed False Claims Act lawsuits from the federal government and three people alleging that Kaiser Permanente affiliates engaged in Medicare fraud, on the heels of Kaiser's $556 million settlement reached in January.
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March 16, 2026
Lannett Investors Seek Final OK Of $5.8M Price-Fix Probe Suit
Former executives of pharmaceutical company Lannett Inc. and a class of investors have asked a Pennsylvania federal court to grant final approval to their $5.8 million deal to end claims the company and its leadership misled about Lannett's links to allegations of industrywide price-fixing in the market for generic drugs.
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March 16, 2026
J&J's Lack Of Malice Gets $966M Talc Verdict Cut To $16M
A California state judge slashed $950 million in punitive damages from a $966 million jury verdict against Johnson & Johnson on Friday in a lawsuit involving an 88-year-old woman who died of mesothelioma, saying the estate's counsel failed to sufficiently show the pharmaceutical giant acted maliciously.
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March 16, 2026
Medtronic Seeks To Ax 'Extreme Outlier' $382M Antitrust Loss
Medtronic has urged a California federal judge to scrap its nearly $382 million trial loss to rival Applied Medical over Medtronic's bundling practices that a jury found suppressed competition for advanced bipolar devices, arguing the verdict is an "extreme outlier" in antitrust law that can't survive.
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March 16, 2026
Amgen And Sanofi End Repatha IP Fight Heard By Justices
Amgen Inc. and Sanofi have settled patent litigation over competing cholesterol drugs Repatha and Praluent, more than two years after they dueled at the U.S. Supreme Court, Sanofi confirmed Monday.
Areas of Coverage
- AGENCIES
- U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- U.S. International Trade Commission
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Affordable Care Act
- Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
- Antitrust and consumer protection controls
- Drug and medical device lobbying
- State and international life sciences legislation and regulation
- ENFORCEMENT
- Drug and medical device recalls
- Drug safety actions
- Pay-for-delay investigations
- Merger reviews
- LITIGATION
- Patent disputes, including
- Abbreviated New Drug Application litigation
- Section 301 cases
- Product safety suits over drugs and medical devices, including off-label marketing and failure-to-warn claims
- Consumer litigation and class actions
- Fraud and compliance suits
- Antitrust disputes
- Labor and employment suits
- Shareholder and corporate governance disputes
- Bankruptcy proceedings
- TRANSACTIONS
- Mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures
- Share buybacks and stock splits
- Private equity deals
- Patent-licensing agreements
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of life sciences practice groups
Readership
- Life sciences lawyers at top law firms
- Corporate counsel and compliance officers at Fortune 1000 companies
- Executives and attorneys in the drug, biotechnology, and medical device industries
- Information experts at law firms, agencies, and companies
- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
- Attorney and law firm marketing professionals