1st Circ. Seems Torn Over Health Plan Surcharge For Smokers
A First Circuit panel appeared divided Wednesday over whether a casino company is required to refund tobacco use fees after smokers on the company's health plan complete a tobacco cessation program.
8th Circ. Revives Doctor's Suit Over COVID Speech Probes
An Eighth Circuit panel on Tuesday revived a doctor's suit seeking an order limiting a Minnesota state medical board's ability to investigate him for his public statements related to the COVID-19 pandemic, fin... (more story)
Urology Tech Co. Can't Duck Antitrust Suit
A New Hampshire federal judge has refused to let Laborie Medical Technologies Corp. escape a proposed class action accusing it of anticompetitively locking healthcare providers already using its urology device... (more story)
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... (more story)
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. ... (more story)
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, arguin... (more story)