Expert Analysis

Denying Emergency Abortion Care Is A Liability Oversight

Health systems in states with abortion bans should consider that refusing to provide emergency abortion care carri... (more story)

Carbon Health Settlement Highlights Why Evidence Is Key

The California Attorney General's Office's first-of-its-kind settlement with Carbon Health, imposing penalties for... (more story)

Remote Work Rulings Show ADA Fights Hinge On Process

Two opposite outcomes in recent Fifth Circuit and D.C. federal court cases underscore that the legality of denying... (more story)

Deals & Corporate Governance More

Taxation With Representation: Freshfields, Slaughter And May

In this week's Taxation With Representation, Uber Technologies Inc. buys food delivery company Delivery Hero SE, engineering group ABB Ltd. acquires flow technology company Rotork PLC, and Eli Lilly and Co. bu... (more story)

Goodwin Adds Life Sciences Veteran For San Diego Relaunch

Goodwin Procter LLP announced on Tuesday that it had hired a veteran life sciences attorney to co-chair its new San Diego office, which is slated to open later this summer.

AI Drug Discovery Biz Valued At $3.8B After Series C Round

Artificial intelligence-based drug discovery company Chai Discovery on Tuesday revealed that it reached a $3.8 billion valuation after closing its latest funding round with $400 million in tow.

BakerHostetler Flips Holland & Knight's Antitrust Co-Lead

An attorney with nearly 25 years of experience in commercial and antitrust litigation has moved his practice to BakerHostetler's Philadelphia office after five years with Holland & Knight LLP.

FTC Secures $12M Settlement Over Edwards-JC Medical Deal

California-based Edwards Lifesciences and Singapore's Genesis Medtech agreed to pay a combined $12 million to settle claims from the Federal Trade Commission that Edwards attempted to evade the Hart-Scott-Rodi... (more story)

Taxation With Representation: Cleary, Paul Weiss, Fried Frank

In this week's Taxation With Representation, Solstice Advanced Materials Inc. acquires specialty chemicals technology company Element Solutions Inc., Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. buys Crinetics Pharmaceuticals ... (more story)

Digital Health & Technology More

Apple Can't Get Judge To Toss Masimo's $634M Patent Verdict

Apple has lost its bid to dodge a jury's finding that it owes $634 million for infringing a Masimo Corp. patent after a California federal judge rejected the tech giant's challenge to how the court construed a... (more story)

Pa. Hospital Must Face Bulk Of Website Pixel Tracking Row

A Pennsylvania federal judge has mostly refused to toss a putative class action accusing Warren General Hospital of illegally deploying tracking technology that divulged website visitors' private health inform... (more story)

Fed. Circ. Vacates $12.7M Copyright Award Against Gov't

The Federal Circuit on Thursday vacated a $12.7 million copyright award against the federal government over unauthorized copies of software for a project on military health records, holding that the trial judg... (more story)

23andMe Bankruptcy Plan Bars Data Breach Suit In Calif.

A Missouri bankruptcy judge has told attorneys representing California the state can no longer press its data breach lawsuit against the reorganized 23andMe, finding the state court action is barred by the com... (more story)

Families Cite Geofence Ruling In Newborn Blood Testing Case

A group of parents suing the state of Michigan over the way newborn blood samples are collected and stored has asked a federal judge to revive its claims by citing recently decided U.S. Supreme Court precedent... (more story)

Healthcare Analytics Co. Beats Data Breach Suit, For Good

Arbor Associates permanently beat patients' proposed negligence class action alleging their sensitive information was stolen following a 2025 data security incident that resulted in an uptick in spam calls, af... (more story)

Policy & Compliance More

Novo's False Ad Suit Against Eli Lilly Ramps Up GLP-1 Rivalry

Pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk Inc. slapped rival Eli Lilly & Co. with a false advertising suit in New Jersey federal court Tuesday, calling a marketing campaign for the rival's weight loss drugs "deceptive... (more story)

Imaging Co. Faces Consolidated Data Breach Cases In NC

A North Carolina federal judge consolidated three proposed class actions against diagnostic imaging provider Lumexa Imaging Inc. over an alleged patient data breach earlier this year, tapping attorneys from Ko... (more story)

Hospitals Say Saul Ewing Atty's Board Role Taints FCA Suit

A Saul Ewing LLP attorney should be disqualified from leading a whistleblower suit over a nurse's alleged diversion of prescription narcotics, as the former Heritage Valley Health System in western Pennsylvani... (more story)

CMS Withholds $1B In Medicaid For Calif., Minn., Citing Fraud

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is withholding more than $1 billion in Medicaid dollars from California and Minnesota because the agency suspects healthcare fraud in those states, officials announced Tuesday.

Research Or Crime? Feds Eye Scientists Crossing Borders

At U.S. airports and border crossings, scientists returning from trips abroad are getting a closer look from law enforcement agents. More smuggling and paperwork violations that might once have been overlooked... (more story)

2nd Circ. Tylenol Expert Call Sows Admissibility Confusion

A recent Second Circuit decision on expert admissibility in a dispute over an alleged link between Tylenol and autism is raising legal experts' concerns that the panel will sow confusion among judges trying to... (more story)