Expert Analysis

How DOJ's New Data Security Rules Leave HIPAA In The Dust

The U.S. Department of Justice's recently effective data security requirements carry profound implications for how... (more story)

Texas Med Spas Must Prepare For 2 New State Laws

Two new laws in Texas — regulating elective intravenous therapy and reforming healthcare noncompetes — mark a pivo... (more story)

Strategies For Cos. Navigating US-Indian Pharma Partnerships

Recent policy adjustments implemented by the U.S. government present both new opportunities and heightened regulat... (more story)

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Biotech Co. Beats Investor Suit Over Antifungal Drug Recall

Biotechnology company Scynexis Inc. has won dismissal, for now, of a proposed investor class action alleging that it triggered a 34% share decline by knowingly misleading investors about manufacturing complian... (more story)

ImmunityBio Investors Nab Initial OK On Derivative Suit Deal

A California federal judge has granted initial approval to a deal ending derivative claims that ImmunityBio executives failed to disclose manufacturing deficiencies that doomed the company's lead cancer drug application.

Ocugen Beats Investor Suit Over Financial Controls

Biopharmaceutical company Ocugen Inc. on Tuesday won permanent dismissal from an investor's class action accusing it of concealing weak financial controls that led to it refiling accounting statements for seve... (more story)

This Week's Healthcare Earnings: UnitedHealth, AstraZeneca

A host of companies posted their second-quarter financial results this past week, offering a look into how health systems, payors and pharmaceutical companies fared over the past few months.

Pharma Co. Blasts Adversary For Nudging Judge Assignment

A pharmaceutical solutions group has assailed its opponent's "hurry-up-court" motion nudging the appointment of a new judge after the previous judge overseeing their contract fight retired, saying its adversar... (more story)

Arnold & Porter Opens Seattle Office With K&L Gates Attys

Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP announced Monday that it has opened a Seattle office with three former K&L Gates LLP partners, and added a fourth attorney from that firm in New Jersey.

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Robotic Surgery Co.'s Antitrust Appeal Backed At 9th Circ.

Surgical Instrument Service Co. Inc. has received backing at the Ninth Circuit from a trade association and others groups as it looks to revive its case accusing Intuitive Surgical Inc. of blocking third parti... (more story)

Flo Likely To Get Health Privacy Claim Tossed In Meta Case

The California federal judge overseeing a trial on allegations that Flo Health and Meta Platforms Inc. violated the privacy of millions of women who used Flo's period tracker app said Wednesday he'd likely tos... (more story)

Illumina To Pay $9.8M To Resolve Cybersecurity Qui Tam Case

Biotechnology company Illumina Inc. has agreed to pay $9.8 million in a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice to put to rest a first-of-its-kind False Claims Act suit alleging the company violated cyb... (more story)

Stanford Health Atty Talks AI Ethics In Patient Care

As hospitals embrace artificial intelligence as part of patient care, they're asking an important question: When and how should patients be told?

How The Healthline Privacy Settlement Redefines Ad Tech Use

The Healthline settlement is the first time California has drawn a clear line in the sand around how website tracking must function in practice, so if your site uses tracking technologies, especially around se... (more story)

High Court Cert Spotlights Varying Tests For Federal Removal

A recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to review Chevron v. Plaquemines Parish, a case involving the federal officer removal statute, highlights three other recent circuit court decisions raising federal ... (more story)

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AGs Sue Trump Over 'Onslaught Of Pressure' On Trans Care

The Trump administration has improperly "weaponized" federal laws against drug misbranding, false claims and female genital mutilation as part of a pressure campaign to undermine state protections for gender-a... (more story)

States Urge High Court To Keep NIH Grant Funds Flowing

A coalition of 16 states pressed the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to reject the Trump administration's push to resume the mass termination of scientific research grants, saying a district judge had authority t... (more story)

Indiana Health Care Co. Fudged Workers' Time, Suit Claims

An Indiana health care network falsified employees' time sheets to avoid paying their overtime, a financial counselor claimed in a proposed class and collective action in federal court.

NC Legislation Highlights Of The 1st Half Of 2025

The North Carolina General Assembly has pushed through another round of hurricane relief aid to help the western swath of the state while lawmakers remain in talks to repeal a long-standing healthcare law that... (more story)

J&J Unit's Catheter Rival Scores Injunction After $442M Win

A California federal judge will block Johnson & Johnson's Biosense Webster from refusing clinical support for its Carto cardio mapping systems from hospitals that use competitors' cardiac catheters, requiring ... (more story)

Justices Told State Med Mal Laws Fly In Federal Court

A Delaware federal court must apply a state statute requiring an expert affidavit in all medical malpractice suits, a hospital defendant told the U.S. Supreme Court, as key aspects of the Delaware law and simi... (more story)