2nd Circ. Doubts Aetna's Push To Arbitrate Health Fund Fight

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Second Circuit Friday appeared skeptical of Aetna's push to force arbitration of an insurance contract dispute with a multiemployer union health benefit fund, with judges pointing to circuit precedent that arguably undermined Aetna's position.

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Ill. Jury Awards Mom $28M After Doctors Ignore Labor Stress

By Lauraann Wood

A Cook County jury in Illinois has awarded $28 million to a mother who accused several University of Illinois Hospital doctors of failing to deliver her son by Cesarean section despite him showing several warning signs during labor that suggested the procedure was necessary, her attorneys announced.

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Up Next At High Court: Pipeline Takings & H-2A Fines

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will wrap up its November sitting by hearing disputes over whether federal or state law should control how much compensation landowners receive for private condemnations under the Natural Gas Act and if the U.S. Department of Labor can use in-house courts to issue civil penalties for violations of its temporary agricultural worker program. 

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MVP: Williams & Connolly's Enu A. Mainigi

Enu Mainigi of Williams & Connolly LLP represented SuperValu and Albertsons before an Illinois federal jury that cleared them of liability on claims they overcharged the government for prescription drugs, earning her a spot as one of the 2026 Law360 Healthcare MVPs.

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Healthcare Execs Indicted Over $14M DC Medicaid Fraud

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Two executives of a Washington, D.C.-based healthcare provider and one of their employees have been indicted in D.C. federal court in connection with a scheme to defraud the district's Medicaid system to the tune of nearly $14 million, federal prosecutors have said.

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Medical IT Co. Makes Data Breach Deal With Conn., Mich., NJ

By George Woolston

The attorneys general of Connecticut, Michigan and New Jersey on Friday announced a settlement of up to $10 million with companies that they say failed to protect medical data ahead of a March 2023 data breach that affected 13.3 million people.

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GSK, Moderna End COVID Vaccine Patent Fight In Delaware

By Craig Clough

GlaxoSmithKline and Moderna dismissed two Delaware federal patent suits Friday over Moderna's COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus vaccines, following a broader settlement in which the companies agreed to license patents to each other.

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FDIC Sued By Rural NY Hospital Over Failed Bank Loan

By Sydney Price

New York-based Community Memorial Hospital Inc. has hit the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation with a suit accusing it of wrongly refusing to insure or offset approximately $1.9 million in loan funds held at a failed Georgia bank, which the hospital claims threatens care for about 47,000 New Yorkers in rural communities.

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Glenmark's $30M Drug Price-Fixing Deal Gets Final OK

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A Connecticut federal judge has granted final approval to a $29.6 million settlement between dozens of states and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals that resolves claims accusing the company of conspiring with competitors to drive up drug prices.

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Medtronic Hit With Antitrust Suit Over Surgical Stapler

By Gianna Ferrarin

Medical device giant Medtronic Inc. is unlawfully monopolizing the market for a type of medical stapler by blocking competitive product trials and using exclusionary bundling tactics in its deals with hospital customers, according to a rival's complaint in Massachusetts federal court.

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$45M Deal In IRhythm Heart Device Investor Suit Gets Final OK

By Gianna Ferrarin

A California federal court granted final approval to a $45 million settlement resolving proposed class action allegations that digital healthcare company iRhythm Technologies inflated stock prices with misrepresentations about its heart-event monitoring device.

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Roundup

Taxation With Representation: Wilson Sonsini, Fenwick

By Zak Kostro

In this week's Taxation With Representation, Marvell Technology buys data center optics maker Lumentum, defense technology company Shield acquires radar company Echodyne, and CVS Health plans to split into two independent, publicly traded companies.

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FTC Letters Expand Hospitals' Pricing Transparency Risks

A wave of warning letters recently sent by the Federal Trade Commission to healthcare service providers makes it clear that, in addition to complying with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' regulations, health systems must now account for the legal standards and broad investigatory power of a second enforcer, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

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How Cos. Can Reassess Ad Tech After Wash. Pixel Use Ruling

The Washington Supreme Court's decision in Baker v. Seattle Children's Hospital, holding that the hospital website's use of Meta Pixel didn't violate the state’s privacy act, may provide a powerful defense against privacy claims, but shouldn’t be read as a blanket approval of advertising technologies, say attorneys at Duane Morris.

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Opinion

Judges Must Turn To Merits Earlier To Fix Civil Justice System

The U.S. justice system is long overdue for a cultural shift that encourages judges to engage with the merits of a case from the outset, which would help to cut through procedural complexities and deliver high-quality justice efficiently and at lower cost, says Steven Kayman at Rottenberg Lipman.

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Are You Happy With Your In-House Role? Take Our Survey

Is your company giving you everything you need to succeed? What are some misconceptions about working in-house? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Satisfaction Survey.

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Squire Patton, Baker McKenzie Hit With Data Breach Suits

By Rae Ann Varona

Squire Patton Boggs LLP and Baker McKenzie failed to protect private personal information stored in the law firms' systems from separate cyberattacks and delayed notifying affected individuals for roughly two months, two proposed class actions filed in Ohio and Illinois federal courts have alleged.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Susman Godfrey LLP, Langer Grogan & Diver PC, Hausfeld LLP and MoloLamken LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Ninth Circuit ruled that a former federal judge erred by scrapping a $4.7 billion jury verdict against the National Football League in a class action over the price of its Sunday Ticket broadcast package.

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Judge Kewalramani Warns Against Taking Sanctions Lightly

By Dani Kass

Retired U.S. Magistrate Judge Shashi Kewalramani on Friday cautioned patent attorneys to be extremely discerning when filing sanctions motions, comparing it to crying "fire" in a crowded room.

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Brief

US Legal Sector Jobs Reached Record High In October

By Tracey Read

The legal industry's hot streak continued last month, adding 2,400 more jobs in October to reach a record high, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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US Charges 3 Over $129M AI Scam Using Fake UK Lawyers

By Laura Stewart Liberty

U.S. prosecutors said Thursday they have charged three men, including one facing extradition from London, for allegedly defrauding companies of $129 million through a scheme that used AI to impersonate executives and U.K. lawyers.

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Defeated Texas Justice Being Considered For Federal Bench

By Courtney Bublé

With the clock ticking on Republicans' control of the Senate, President Donald Trump is considering putting a Texas Supreme Court justice who just lost reelection on the federal bench.

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Attys Can Curb AI Error Fallout With Candor, Accountability

By Andrea Keckley

Nearly four years since ChatGPT launched and the legal industry began experimenting at scale with generative artificial intelligence, not a month goes by without another attorney finding a hallucination error in a court filing.

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Top Blanche Adviser Among Latest To Exit DOJ

By Jared Foretek

A top legal adviser to U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced his departure from the U.S. Department of Justice Friday, becoming the latest in a slew of high-profile resignations from the department since Republicans' midterm election defeat Tuesday night.

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Ice Miller Sued Over $729K Award After Losing Federal Forum

By Andrea Keckley

A couple who hired Ice Miller LLP to defend their organization against a breach of contract suit have accused the firm in Indiana federal court of exposing them to additional litigation with a settlement that failed to preserve federal jurisdiction over future disputes.

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Law Firm Sues Sierra Leone Over $361K Legal Bill

By Jared Foretek

Law firm Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC claims in a complaint filed in D.C. federal court that Sierra Leone's government stiffed it on more than $300,000 in legal fees and costs after the firm defended it against earlier claims of unpaid fees by Jenner & Block.

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Mich. Supreme Court Chief Next To Lead Chief Justice Group

By Melanie Dorsey

The Michigan Supreme Court's chief justice has been named president-elect of the Conference of Chief Justices, a national organization representing the highest-ranking state judicial officers, and she plans to focus on expanding access to legal services, reforming attorney licensing and strengthening courthouse security.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

The U.S. Department of Justice's new cash rewards program for tips on criminal fraud could backfire in some cases, experts say. Elsewhere, attorneys are weighing new strategies in the wake of Texas' historic blue shift during the midterm elections. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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