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Latest News in Life Sciences

  • September 15, 2026

    Express Scripts Accused Of Shorting Independent Pharmacies

    A dozen independent Arkansas pharmacies on Tuesday hauled Express Scripts into Missouri state court, accusing the pharmacy benefit management giant of continuously shorting them on prescription reimbursements despite Arkansas' efforts to combat underpayments.

  • September 15, 2026

    Connecticut Wins Fight Over School Vaccine Exemptions

    Connecticut has won the dismissal of a challenge to its mandatory school vaccination laws, beating through both litigation and legislative amendments allegations by parents that the state's rollback of vaccine exemptions violated religious freedom statutes and the state and federal constitutions.

  • September 15, 2026

    Meet The Attys In The 340B Battle At 1st Circ.

    Gibson Dunn and Dunn Isaacson Rhee attorneys presented arguments Tuesday at the First Circuit over whether drug manufacturers can intervene in a challenge to a now-suspended drug rebate program for hospitals. Law360 profiles the attorneys.

  • September 15, 2026

    Mich. AG Says PBMs Put Opioid Profits Before Patient Safety

    Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has asked a federal court not to dismiss the state's lawsuit accusing pharmacy benefit managers including Express Scripts and Optum of abetting the opioid epidemic, arguing the PBMs are not passive administrators, but profit-driven architects of the crisis.

  • September 15, 2026

    Takeda Can't Decertify Amitiza Class After $885M Jury Loss

    A Massachusetts federal court refused Takeda's request to decertify a class of Amitiza buyers, after a jury awarded groups of purchasers a total of $885 million for claims that the drugmaker conspired to delay the launch of a rival generic version of the anti-constipation drug.

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