Health

  • January 06, 2025

    Teoxane Outbids Crown With New Revance Therapeutics Bid

    Teoxane SA said Monday it has submitted a proposal to Revance Therapeutics Inc. to acquire the healthcare biotechnology company for $3.60 per share in cash, one-upping Revance's existing agreement to sell itself to skincare company Crown Laboratories Inc. for $3.10 per share in cash. 

  • January 06, 2025

    SEC Seeks To Bar Milbank Probe From Dialysis Execs' Trial

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Monday that two dialysis company executives accused of accounting fraud should not be allowed to tell a jury about a Milbank LLP-led internal investigation they say found no evidence of intentional wrongdoing.

  • January 06, 2025

    Outpatient Surgery Co. Strikes $1.5M Deal To End 401(k) Suit

    United Surgical Partners International Inc. will pay about $1.48 million to end a proposed class action alleging the outpatient surgery network loaded its employee 401(k) plan with expensive investment options and excessive fees, according to a filing in Texas federal court.

  • January 06, 2025

    Sheppard Mullin Hires University Of Calif. Health Counsel

    Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP announced Monday that it has hired two attorneys who previously served in-house at the University of California to bolster its healthcare industry practice group.

  • January 06, 2025

    Staffing Co. Strikes $4.4M Deal To End Nurses' Wage Suit

    A healthcare staffing agency agreed to pay $4.4 million to resolve a 2,300-member collective action accusing it of shorting travel nurses on overtime wages and forcing them to accept lower pay after they had already begun their contracts, a filing in Washington federal court said.

  • January 06, 2025

    Girard Sharp Launches Into New Year With New Leadership

    San Francisco-based Girard Sharp has kicked off the new year with a major leadership change, announcing Monday that Daniel C. Girard had stepped down as managing partner of the prominent plaintiffs complex litigation boutique he founded in 1995 and that longtime partner Dena C. Sharp was taking the reins.

  • January 03, 2025

    Aetna Says Takeda Inked Deal To Block Generics, Keep Profits

    Takeda Pharmaceuticals struck an anticompetitive deal with Par Pharmaceutical to keep a cheaper, generic version of its anticonstipation drug Amitiza off the market after the drug's compound patent expired, Aetna claimed Friday in a Massachusetts lawsuit, with the insurer alleging it overpaid millions of dollars for the brand name drug.

  • January 03, 2025

    Hospital Org Inks $135M Deal To End Ex-CFO's Fraud Claims

    Community Health Network has agreed to pay $135 million to end federal healthcare fraud claims brought by its former chief financial officer, a deal reached two years after the Indiana healthcare system agreed to pay $345 million to settle False Claims Act allegations from the government in the qui tam action, the ex-CFO's counsel announced Thursday.

  • January 03, 2025

    DOJ Wants Oct. Amedisys Trial, UnitedHealth Wants Aug.

    The U.S. Department of Justice sparred with UnitedHealth Group in a Maryland federal court filing Friday over when to hold a trial on the government challenge to the $3.3 billion purchase of home health and hospice services company Amedisys Inc.

  • January 03, 2025

    Mass. Justices Affirm $29M Award In Leg Amputation Suit

    The top court in Massachusetts on Friday upheld a nearly $29 million payout in a patient's lawsuit that accused two nurses and a physician assistant of causing his leg amputation, saying the details of a settlement agreement with two of the three healthcare professionals was properly excluded at trial.

  • January 03, 2025

    PBMs 'Wasting' Time in Opioid MDL Discovery Spat: Judge

    An Ohio federal judge overseeing multidistrict opioid litigation on Friday denied pharmacy benefit managers a stay to appeal a discovery order and said he believed the PBMs were "wasting" the court's time.

  • January 03, 2025

    Outcome Execs Say Ill. Judge Should End Restitution Process

    Outcome Health's former executives say the Illinois federal judge working to calculate how much they should repay investors following their fraud conviction should end the "largely academic" exercise because prosecutors haven't shown financial loss, and other repayment avenues remain open.

  • January 03, 2025

    Lyft, Home Health Agency Sued Over Fatal Crash

    Lyft, a Massachusetts home healthcare agency and several individuals have been named in a wrongful death suit brought on Friday by the daughters of an elderly woman who died after her rideshare driver sped off a highway and into the front of a closed retail store last May.

  • January 03, 2025

    NY Nursing Home Blames AG's 'Crusade' For Ch. 11

    The owner of a 588-bed nursing facility on Long Island has filed for Chapter 11 protection in a New York bankruptcy court with more than $58 million in debt, saying it was the victim of a "crusade" and "smear campaign" launched by the state attorney general's office.

  • January 03, 2025

    Mich. Justices Asked To Ease Hospital Liability Standard

    A patient has urged the Michigan Supreme Court to clear up the standards for when hospitals can be liable for the mistakes of doctors who treat patients as independent contractors, saying a recent decision by the state's intermediate appellate court added an unwarranted hurdle to holding hospitals responsible.

  • January 03, 2025

    Physician Assistant Can't Avoid Suspension For Hiding Probe

    An Ohio appeals court has affirmed sanctions the state's medical board gave a physician assistant for not disclosing his employer's investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against him, rejecting the argument he misunderstood his obligation to report it on his license renewal application.

  • January 03, 2025

    Settlement Reached In Hartford HealthCare Antitrust Suit

    The parties in an antitrust lawsuit that accused Hartford HealthCare Corp. and its affiliates of using monopoly power to stifle competition in Connecticut's second-most populous county have settled, federal court records show.

  • January 03, 2025

    Insurers Ordered To Pay $165M For Deceptive Marketing

    Insurance companies banned from selling policies in Massachusetts due to alleged deceptive marketing practices have been ordered to pay $165 million for selling the plans anyway and using similar false advertising in their pitches to consumers, a state judge has ruled.

  • January 03, 2025

    Alcohol Should Have Cancer Warnings, Surgeon General Says

    The U.S. surgeon general said Friday that alcohol consumption is one of the leading causes of preventable cancer, after tobacco and obesity, and that alcoholic beverages should carry warning labels, pointing to a gap in the public's understanding of its risks.

  • January 02, 2025

    DC Kept Disabled People In Restrictive Care Too Long: Ruling

    After 15 years of litigation, a D.C. federal judge ruled this week that the District of Columbia has been violating a federal law that prohibits the segregation of people with disabilities by refusing to remove people from Medicaid-funded nursing homes into less restrictive forms of care.

  • January 02, 2025

    Issa Again Selected To Lead House IP Subcommittee

    Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., will again lead the House subcommittee overseeing intellectual property in the upcoming Congress, a role in which he has sponsored bills seeking to limit how many patents can be asserted in biosimilar cases and require disclosure of litigation funding.

  • January 02, 2025

    1st Private Co. Joins Insulin Price-Fixing MDL

    A Florida-based car dealer is the first private company to join a multidistrict litigation accusing Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly and Sanofi-Aventis of fixing the prices of insulin and other drugs to treat diabetes.

  • January 02, 2025

    Ozempic Caused Severe Pain And Hospitalization, Suit Says

    Pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk has been sued in Connecticut federal court by a 67-year-old woman claiming it did not properly disclose the risk of gastroparesis associated with its popular weight loss drug Ozempic, which allegedly caused her severe stomach pain and vomiting that led to a 10-day hospitalization.

  • January 02, 2025

    Eli Lilly Slams Suit Alleging Shortage Of Weight-Loss Drug

    Eli Lilly is seeking permission to join a legal fight over whether compounding pharmacies can keep making copycat versions of the company's lucrative weight-loss and diabetes drug, telling a federal court Wednesday that its interests aren't adequately represented by federal regulators.

  • January 02, 2025

    Hikma Wants Extension At High Court In Skinny Label Case

    Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. wants an extra month to file its petition challenging the Federal Circuit's revival of a suit claiming the company induced physicians to infringe patents covering Amarin Pharma Inc.'s blockbuster cardiovascular drug Vascepa, citing the case's importance and the busy schedules of attorneys.

Expert Analysis

  • Opinion

    Agencies Should Reward Corporate Cyber Victim Cooperation

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    The increased regulatory scrutiny on corporate victims of cyberattacks — exemplified by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's case against SolarWinds — should be replaced with a new model that provides adequate incentives for companies to come forward proactively and collaborate with law enforcement, say attorneys at McDermott.

  • Firms Must Offer A Trifecta Of Services In Post-Chevron World

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision overturning Chevron deference, law firms will need to integrate litigation, lobbying and communications functions to keep up with the ramifications of the ruling and provide adequate counsel quickly, says Neil Hare at Dentons.

  • 5 Ways Life Sciences Cos. Can Manage Insider Trading Risk

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    In light of two high-profile insider trading jury decisions against life sciences executives this year, public companies in the sector should revise their policies to account for regulators' new and more expansive theories of liability, says Amy Walsh at Orrick.

  • Strategies To Defend Against Healthcare Nuclear Verdicts

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    The healthcare industry is increasingly the target of megaclaims, particularly those alleging medical malpractice, but attorneys representing providers can use a few tools to push back on flimsy litigation and reduce the likelihood of a nuclear verdict, says LaMar Jost at Wheeler Trigg.

  • 5 Tips To Succeed In A Master Of Laws Program And Beyond

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    As lawyers and recent law school graduates begin their Master of Laws coursework across the country, they should keep a few pointers in mind to get the most out of their programs and kick-start successful careers in their practice areas, says Kelley Miller at Reed Smith.

  • Series

    Being An Opera Singer Made Me A Better Lawyer

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    My journey from the stage to the courtroom has shown that the skills I honed as an opera singer – punctuality, memorization, creativity and more – have all played a vital role in my success as an attorney, says Gerard D'Emilio at GableGotwals.

  • What Drug Cos. Must Know About NY Price Transparency Law

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    Drug manufacturers must understand the contours of New York's recently implemented law requiring self-reporting of drug price increases, as well as best practices for compliance and challenges against similar laws in other states, say Elizabeth Bierut and Angie Garcia at Friedman Kaplan.

  • How Law Firms Can Avoid 'Collaboration Drag'

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    Law firm decision making can be stifled by “collaboration drag” — characterized by too many pointless meetings, too much peer feedback and too little dissent — but a few strategies can help stakeholders improve decision-making processes and build consensus, says Steve Groom at Miles Mediation.

  • Opinion

    Litigation Funding Disclosure Key To Open, Impartial Process

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    Blanket investor and funding agreement disclosures should be required in all civil cases where the investor has a financial interest in the outcome in order to address issues ranging from potential conflicts of interest to national security concerns, says Bob Goodlatte, former U.S. House Representative for Virginia.

  • Whistleblowers Must Note 5 Key Differences Of DOJ Program

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    The U.S. Department of Justice’s recently unveiled whistleblower awards program diverges in key ways from similar programs at other agencies, and individuals must weigh these differences and look first to programs with stronger, proven protections before blowing the whistle, say Stephen Kohn and Geoff Schweller at Kohn Kohn.

  • The Licensure Landscape For Psychedelics Manufacturers

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    As the need for bulk manufacturing of psychedelic substances grows, organizations aiming to support clinical trials or become commercial suppliers must navigate a rigorous and multifaceted journey to obtaining a license from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, say Kimberly Chew at Husch Blackwell and Jaime Dwight at Promega Corp.

  • What NFL Draft Picks Have In Common With Lateral Law Hires

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    Nearly half of law firm lateral hires leave within a few years — a failure rate that is strikingly similar to the performance of NFL quarterbacks drafted in the first round — in part because evaluators focus too heavily on quantifiable metrics and not enough on a prospect's character traits, says Howard Rosenberg at Baretz+Brunelle.

  • Replacing The Stigma Of Menopause With Law Firm Support

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    A large proportion of the workforce is forced to pull the brakes on their career aspirations because of the taboo surrounding menopause and a lack of consistent support, but law firms can initiate the cultural shift needed by formulating thoughtful workplace policies, says Barbara Hamilton-Bruce at Simmons & Simmons.

  • Planning Law Firm Content Calendars: What, When, Where

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    During the slower month of August, law firms should begin working on their 2025 content calendars, planning out a content creation and distribution framework that aligns with the firm’s objectives and maintains audience engagement throughout the year, says Jessica Kaplan at Legally Penned.

  • Series

    Playing Golf Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Golf can positively affect your personal and professional life well beyond the final putt, and it’s helped enrich my legal practice by improving my ability to build lasting relationships, study and apply the rules, face adversity with grace, and maintain my mental and physical well-being, says Adam Kelly at Venable.

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