Express Scripts on Wednesday agreed to what the Federal Trade Commission called a "landmark settlement" promising major changes to its drug formulary practices, allowing the company to duck out of a case accusing all three of the country's largest pharmacy benefit managers of inflating insulin prices through rebate schemes.
Express Scripts on Wednesday agreed to what the Federal Trade Commission called a "landmark settlement" promising major changes to its drug formulary practices, allowing the company to duck out of a case accusing all three of the country's largest pharmacy benefit managers of inflating insulin prices through rebate schemes.
Ascension Health Alliance escaped a former employee's proposed class action alleging a fee on tobacco-using workers' health plans violated federal benefits law, after a Missouri federal judge held the private Catholic healthcare system wasn't required to retroactively reimburse surcharges for workers who completed a tobacco cessation program.
A Ninth Circuit panel Wednesday revived a proposed securities class action against toy-maker Funko Inc. and two former executives, ruling that shareholders sufficiently alleged that some company statements about its handling of millions of dollars of dead inventory were false and misleading.
Delaware Chancery Court has lined up a March 16 settlement hearing for a four-year stockholder lawsuit alleging insiders of Northwest Biotherapeutics Inc. received $40 million in stock awards, with proposals including a call for the company to forfeit nearly 22.9 million stock options and it receiving $2.25 million.
The families of patients of Children's Hospital Colorado who allege it is discriminating against their children through its suspension of gender-affirming medical care for youth patients told a Colorado state court Wednesday the stoppage has significantly harmed their children.
Workers who alleged RTX Corp. illegally used forfeited retirement funds to pay the company's 401(k) contribution have asked the Fourth Circuit to revive their case after a Virginia federal judge ruled they had failed to state a claim.
Several recent cases, including the U.S. Supreme Court's forthcoming ruling in Anderson v. Intel, illustrate the competing forces shaping excessive fee litigation, with plaintiffs seeking flexibility, courts demanding specificity, fiduciaries facing increased scrutiny for conflicts of interest, and self-dealing amplifying exposure, says James Beall at Willig Williams.
Resilience is a skill acquired through daily practices that focus on learning from missteps, recovering quickly without internalizing defeat and moving forward with intention, says Nicholas Meza at Quarles & Brady.
Longtime Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP chair Brad S. Karp has resigned from his leadership role, the firm announced Wednesday, a move that comes after the U.S. Department of Justice released numerous emails between Karp and Jeffrey Epstein.
Baker McKenzie, which has a legal services hub in Tampa, Florida, is in the process of downsizing business professionals' jobs, a firm spokesperson confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.
Allegations that an ex-DLA Piper partner raped a former Boston-based associate in Delaware in 2022 should be tossed since the Massachusetts state court the case was filed in has no jurisdiction over the Delaware claim, according to the accused former partner.
A star government witness and the top outside accountant for SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein and his law firm admitted to making mistakes on Goldstein's tax returns and offering the grand jury erroneous testimony, under cross-examination in the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer's tax fraud trial Wednesday.
President Donald Trump has transformed what has historically been a bureaucratic process for seeking federal pardons and commutations into a more freewheeling affair with few clear rules — and no easy solutions for reform, experts say.
A dispute over who is liable for a former Wachtel Missry LLP partner's alleged exploitation of an elderly client has been settled on the eve of trial, while the Brooklyn federal judge declined to consider recusing himself despite "inadvertently" meeting with the firm's founding partner before the matter was fully put to rest.
Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox News anchor and a leading advocate for ending forced arbitration of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, has come out against a federal judicial nominee for Louisiana for her past comments on the issue.
A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday repeatedly aired doubts that President Donald Trump can upend the pending New York state appeal of his hush-money conviction by moving the case to federal court.
