Expert Analysis

Health Cos. Must Act Quickly To Secure Digital Front Doors

A fast-approaching deadline will require health providers to implement digital accessibility standards to their we... (more story)

How Oregon Ruling Affects Federal Gender Care Crackdown

In a favorable development for healthcare providers, an Oregon federal court recently vacated certain U.S. Departm... (more story)

Congress Should Ax Privacy Bill For Not Shielding Consumers

The SECURE Data Act should be rejected because, despite Congress' claims, it would not meaningfully rein in data p... (more story)

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Judge Probes Cert. For Diverse Worker Class In No-Poach Suit

An Illinois federal judge considering whether to certify a class of former health care employees claiming their wages were suppressed by alleged no-poach agreements between DaVita, UnitedHealth Group's Surgica... (more story)

10x, Harvard Sue Sequencing Co. Over Biology Patents

10x Genomics Inc. and Harvard have sued Element Biosciences Inc. in Delaware federal court, accusing the San Diego sequencing company of infringing four Harvard-owned patents through Element's AVITI24 platform... (more story)

Alto Says Investors Use Hindsight In Suit Over Drug Trial

Alto Neuroscience has urged a California federal judge to toss an investor suit alleging the psychiatric biotech company and its top brass overstated the efficacy of their lead drug candidate for treating majo... (more story)

Ex-CEO Gets 5 Years In Prison For $212.5M Fraud Case

A New Jersey federal judge on Tuesday sentenced the former CEO of a now-defunct medical billing company to five years in prison, the statutory maximum penalty, for his role in a $212.5 million scheme to inflat... (more story)

Judge Shuts Down Invalidity Theory In Abiomed IP Case

A Massachusetts federal judge has foreclosed one of Abiomed's invalidity defenses in a case brought by rival medical technology firm Maquet over alleged infringement of a patent covering blood pump technology.

Twist Bioscience Investors Seek $17M Stock Fraud Deal OK

Twist Bioscience Corp. and two executives asked a California federal court to give preliminary approval to a $17 million deal they inked with investors to resolve class allegations the company misrepresented t... (more story)

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Cardiac Device Co. Says Ex-Manager Took Secrets To Rival

Vital Connect Inc., a company that sells wearable cardiac monitoring devices, told a North Carolina federal court that a former senior key accounts manager pilfered its confidential information only to decamp ... (more story)

Davis Polk-Led Roche To Pay Up To $1.05B For PathAI

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP is advising Roche on a deal announced Thursday that would see the Swiss healthcare company purchase a Boston-based, AI-powered digital pathology company for up to $1.05 billion.

Patient Data Tracking Suit Sent Back To Wis. State Court

A Wisconsin federal judge has thrown back to state court a putative class action accusing healthcare providers Hospital Sisters Health Systems and Prevea Health Services of deploying tracking tools that illega... (more story)

Apple Urges Full Fed. Circ. To Undo Original Watch Import Ban

A Federal Circuit panel erred when finding the U.S. International Trade Commission properly banned imports of Apple Watches with blood oxygen-monitoring features, the tech giant behind the devices said in a pl... (more story)

CooperSurgical Strikes Deal To End Embryo Loss Class Suit

Connecticut-based fertility products manufacturer CooperSurgical Inc. has reached a settlement with a proposed class of in vitro fertilization patients and their partners, who claimed the company's defective p... (more story)

FTC Deal Bars Kochava From Selling Sensitive Location Data

Mobile app analytics provider Kochava Inc. has agreed to halt the disclosure of sensitive location data without consumers' affirmative express consent to resolve the Federal Trade Commission's longstanding cla... (more story)

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FTC's Gender-Care Probe Likely Retaliatory, Judge Says

The Endocrine Society has convinced a D.C. federal judge that the Federal Trade Commission's motivation for targeting it with a subpoena was likely retaliation for the guidelines the nonprofit produced regardi... (more story)

Ohio Health System Looks To Toss DOJ Antitrust Case

OhioHealth told a federal court Friday the antitrust case from the U.S. Department of Justice and state enforcers over the hospital system's contracts with insurers would limit competition, not restore it.

4th Circ. Backs Toss Of Fired Worker's Whistleblower Suit

The Fourth Circuit upheld the dismissal Friday of a home health salesperson's suit claiming he was fired out of retaliation for complaining about sexual comments made at a company picnic, ruling the lower cour... (more story)

Using FCA To Go After DEI Poses Legal Hurdles For DOJ

The Trump administration's use of the False Claims Act to go after DEI policies diverges from past administrations' use of the civil fraud statute to tackle policy initiatives in key ways that may pose legal c... (more story)

NC Panel Rules Prior Verdict Bars Hospital Negligence Case

A divided North Carolina state appeals court panel pulled the plug on a couple's negligence case against a local hospital, finding their suit is bound by a verdict in a separate, near-identical lawsuit in whic... (more story)

La. Says Mailed Abortion Pills Harm State Budget, Sovereignty

The state of Louisiana on Thursday defended its standing to challenge telehealth access to the abortion medication mifepristone, telling the U.S. Supreme Court that it has suffered financial and other injuries... (more story)