Expert Analysis

Healthcare Orgs Should Prep For Greater Grant Oversight

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' new Audit Enforcement and Risk Oversight initiative, and a propo... (more story)

Key Tips For Patenting Antibody-Drug Conjugate Inventions

Recent decisions highlight the significant challenges that can arise when patenting antibody-drug conjugates, whic... (more story)

8 Ways 2026's Market Divide Is Rewriting Real Estate Risk

As construction activity increasingly concentrates in data centers, healthcare and other resilient sectors, real e... (more story)

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UCHealth Workers Fight Bid To Toss Wage Suit

Two former hospital workers urged a Colorado federal court to keep alive their proposed class and collective action alleging University of Colorado Health shorted hourly employees through a time-rounding polic... (more story)

Insulin Makers Can't Nix 340B Antitrust Claims On Remand

A New York federal judge trimmed proposed class action claims by providers alleging Sanofi-Aventis and other drugmakers colluded to deny them discounts on insulin products under the 340B program, allowing most... (more story)

Asthma Drug Developer To Wind Down In Chancery Court

A subsidiary of Rock Creek Advisors LLC created to administer the liquidation of an asthma drug developer to pay creditors notified Delaware's chancery court that the company turned to a wind-down after clinic... (more story)

Wash. Healthcare Firm's Ex-CEO Admits To Embezzling $24M

A former chief executive officer of Washington-based Community Clinic Network has pled guilty to wire fraud in Washington federal court, admitting he drained almost $24.4 million from the healthcare company's ... (more story)

Taxation With Representation: Sidley, Paul Weiss, Kirkland

In this week's Taxation With Representation, Germany's Merck KGaA acquires life sciences tools supplier Bio-Techne Corp., drugmaker AbbVie buys clinical-stage biotechnology company Apogee Therapeutics, and bui... (more story)

4th Circ. Says Supply Co.'s Foreign Member Kills Diversity

The Fourth Circuit on Thursday declined to reinstate a medical supply company's contract dispute against a U.K. corporation over COVID-19 test kits, after finding that the lack of a U.S. citizen on the supply ... (more story)

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Patients Say Colo. Health Network Didn't Secure HIV Data

A Colorado healthcare organization that operates as the state's largest source of services and programs for people impacted by HIV did not protect patients' private information in a cyberattack, according to t... (more story)

Meta Fails To Knock Out BIPA Voiceprint Privacy Claims

A California federal judge has refused to let Meta Platforms Inc. escape an Illinois woman's proposed class claims that Meta collects "voiceprints" in violation of Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act, ... (more story)

Steps For Employers After 7th Circ. BIPA Retroactivity Ruling

The Seventh Circuit's recent ruling in Clay v. Union Pacific sharply limits per-scan statutory damages theories in pending Biometric Information Privacy Act cases by retroactively applying a 2024 amendment, bu... (more story)

Planned Parenthood Sent Patient Data To Google, Suit Says

Planned Parenthood and regional affiliates were hit with a proposed class action alleging they use hidden tracking tools on their website and patient portals to transmit sensitive sexual and reproductive healt... (more story)

Stryker Says Data Breach Suit Built On Speculation

Michigan-based medical technology company Stryker Corp. has asked a federal judge to toss a proposed class action over a March cyberattack, arguing the former and current employees suing the company cannot sho... (more story)

Wellstar Reaches Deal In Patient Data-Sharing Suit

Georgia's largest healthcare system has reached a settlement with a group of anonymous patients who alleged that the confidential health information of "millions" was shared with Meta Platform Inc. without con... (more story)

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Judge To Mull Surgeon's Dismissal Bid In 'No Surprises' Suit

A New Jersey federal judge will soon decide whether allegations that a well-known plastic surgeon abused the No Surprises Act arbitration system can move forward, in a closely watched case testing what role co... (more story)

Cigna, Others Fight Ohio AG's Drug Price-Fixing Suit

Ohio pharmacy benefit managers and their corporate parents urged a federal judge to toss the state's drug price-fixing lawsuit, saying in a series of briefs that the state is trying to skirt federal pleading s... (more story)

GEO Still Blocking Parts Of NJ Detention Center, State Says

New Jersey and its Department of Health told a federal judge that despite consent from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to tour its Newark detention center, facility operator GEO Group Inc. is still ba... (more story)

Feds Sue Mich., Other States For Not Sharing SNAP Records

The U.S. Department of Justice is asking federal courts to force Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota and Pennsylvania to turn over their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program applicant data that the Trump admini... (more story)

26 States Sue To Nix Medicaid Work Rule For Medically Frail

More than two dozen states sued the Trump administration Monday in Massachusetts federal court in a bid to strike down new Medicaid work requirements for certain enrollees, saying the administration did not co... (more story)

AstraZeneca To Pay $34M In Texas Kickbacks Settlement

AstraZeneca has agreed to pay nearly $34 million to the state of Texas to put to rest allegations the pharmaceutical company gave kickbacks to providers for prescribing its drugs, many of which were covered by... (more story)