Ex-CEO Of COVID Vax Maker Accused Of Insider Trading

By Sarah Jarvis

New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday sued the former CEO of healthcare contractor Emergent BioSolutions Inc., alleging insider trading amid troubles manufacturing a COVID-19 vaccine, while signing a $900,000 settlement with the company over its approval of an executive trading plan.

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Trump Admin Defies Funding K-12 Mental Health Grants

By Mark Payne

The Trump administration is fighting an effort by a coalition of U.S. states to preserve at least six months of funding for K-12 mental health grants meant to help students process gun violence, arguing that an earlier court ruling doesn't require the feds to fund the grants.

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5th Circ. Revives Allstate's Fraud Suit Over Car Crash Billing

By Gina Kim

The Fifth Circuit on Wednesday revived Allstate's racketeering suit alleging doctors and personal injury lawyers unleashed a barrage of unnecessary treatments for car accident patients and caused Allstate to pay $4.7 million in claims, finding the insurer sufficiently pled details about the conspiracy and specifics surrounding each allegedly fake medical billing.

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3 Brothers Used Dental Practices To Bilk Medicare, Jury Told

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Federal prosecutors told a Pennsylvania jury on Thursday that brothers operating a nationwide chain of dental practices were the driving force of a complex scheme that the government said defrauded Medicare through bogus reimbursement claims, the use of unapproved dental implants and the fudging of visa paperwork to recruit foreign workers.

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Healthcare In Court

Pa. Court Refuses To Involuntarily Medicate Murder Suspect

By Elizabeth Daley

A man accused of killing his neighbor in 2024 due to paranoid delusions cannot be forcibly medicated in order to stand trial, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled, finding the state hadn't proved that the man would be competent if he were treated.

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SEC Says Healthcare Exec Misspent $10.6M In Investor Funds

By Katryna Perera

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday accused a healthcare company CEO of misappropriating over $10 million from investors by falsely claiming the funds would be used to develop cancer screening and treatment technology when in fact they were spent on credit card debt, luxury vehicles and strip club visits.

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CVS Ducks Antitrust But Not Biz Interference Claim At 5th Circ.

By Bryan Koenig

A Fifth Circuit panel has largely sided with CVS Pharmacy and its Caremark affiliate by preserving a district court's dismissal of federal antitrust claims over a Mississippi pharmacy's rejection from participating in the pharmacy benefit manager's network, although the judges did revive state law claims.

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State Dept. Releases List Of Countries Targeted By Visa Pause

By Ganesh Setty

The U.S. Department of State released an official list of the 75 countries for which it will pause issuing immigrant visas, after it said immigrants from these countries "take welfare from the American people at unacceptable rates."

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Fla. Eye Clinics To Pay $6M Over False Medical Billing Claims

By David Minsky

Five Florida ophthalmology clinics have reached settlements with the government over allegations that they filed false claims to Medicare and Medicaid, agreeing to collectively pay nearly $6 million to resolve accusations that the clinics billed the federal healthcare programs for medically unnecessary eye procedures.

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Colo. Eye Clinics Settle Medicaid Double-Billing Claims

By Zach Dupont

The Colorado attorney general's office announced Thursday that it reached a settlement totaling $520,000 with two eye care clinics that the state claimed were double-billing a Medicaid vision program for more than five years.

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Wrong Word Dooms Med Mal Suit Against UT Cancer Center

By Y. Peter Kang

A Texas appeals court on Thursday dismissed a suit accusing the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center of causing a cancer patient's injuries from "chemotherapy," saying that because the treatment was actually "immunotherapy," an exception to governmental immunity did not apply.

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Trial 'No Longer Warranted' After Judge's Stelara Reversal

By Bryan Koenig

The fate of insurer CareFirst's suit accusing Johnson & Johnson of using a merger and patent fraud to anticompetitively protect immunosuppressive drug Stelara from competition is in doubt after a Virginia federal judge reversed course and nixed key claims he had previously teed up for trial.

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Rehab Center's Suit Against Atty Can Proceed, 6th Circ. Says

By Emily Sawicki

An Ohio attorney accused of mishandling the sale of a substance abuse treatment center in West Virginia is facing revived malpractice claims after the Sixth Circuit reversed a federal district court ruling that found the client waited too long to file suit against the lawyer.

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Insurer Owes $24.5M For Burn Case, Medical Spa Trustee Says

By Gianna Ferrarin

A trustee for the bankruptcy estate of a former medical spa owner alleged that Aspen Specialty Insurance Co. breached its duty to defend the woman in litigation over a client's burn injury, forcing her to face a $24.5 million default judgment.

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NC Attys Can Withdraw From 'Unworkable' Nurses' Pay Row

By Benjamin Morse

Two attorneys who said they had "irreconcilable differences" with nurse practitioners who did not meet their contractual financial obligations can withdraw their representation in a minimum wage lawsuit against their employer, a North Carolina federal magistrate judge ruled.

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Brief

Ambulance Co. Will Pay $225K To Settle OT Suit

By Benjamin Morse

An Illinois ambulance services company will pay $225,000 to end a suit alleging it violated wage law by only paying employees overtime when they worked more than 80 hours in a two-week period, according to a federal judge's order approving the deal.

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Simpson Thacher Guides New Mountain's $1.2B Fund Close

By Isaac Monterose

New Mountain Capital LLC, guided by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, has closed its second noncontrol private equity fund with $1.2 billion raised, aiming to use the funds to target companies in industries such as healthcare technology and life sciences, the alternative investment firm announced on Thursday.

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3 Firms Advise On Boston Scientific's $14.5B Penumbra Deal

By Al Barbarino

Allen Overy Shearman Sterling and Arnold & Porter are advising Boston Scientific Corp. on an agreement announced Thursday for the global medical technology company to purchase Davis Polk-advised Penumbra Inc. at a $14.5 billion enterprise value.

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Carlyle Among Bidders For Lukoil Assets, Plus More Rumors

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Private equity giant Carlyle is among a group of bidders reportedly looking to grab hold of $22 billion worth of Russia's Lukoil assets; Canadian oil and gas company Canadian Natural Resources is looking to acquire Tourmaline Oil Corp.'s $1 billion portfolio of natural gas properties; and Nvidia rival Cerebras eyes a $22 billion valuation after a planned $1 billion funding round.

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Rite Aid Trusts Can Access Health Data To Pursue Tort Claims

By Alex Wittenberg

A New Jersey bankruptcy judge said Thursday he will allow trusts set up under Rite Aid's first Chapter 11 plan to examine personal health data to support their effort to litigate tort and insurance claims, overruling the new Rite Aid debtor's objection.

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Crowell Lands Buchalter Practice Group Co-Chair In Calif.

By Rose Krebs

Crowell & Moring LLP announced Thursday that it has added the former co-chair of Buchalter PC's white collar and government investigations practice to bolster its capacity to handle healthcare fraud and other cases.

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CMS 2027 Proposal Is Mixed Bag For Medicare Advantage

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' recent proposed rule for the Medicare Advantage and Part D programs gives small organizations reason for optimism, although certain elements may be inconsistent with the Centers' desire to enhance competition, says Christine Clements at Sheppard Mullin.

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2026 State AI Bills That Could Expand Liability, Insurance Risk

State bills legislating artificial intelligence that are expected to pass in 2026 will reshape the liability landscape for all companies incorporating AI solutions into their business operations, as any novel private rights of action authorized under AI-related statutes signal expanding exposures, say attorneys at Wiley.

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Insights From 2025's Flood Of Data Breach Litigation

Several coherent patterns emerged from 2025's data breach litigation activity, suggesting that judges have grown skilled at distinguishing between companies that were genuinely victimized by sophisticated criminal actors despite reasonable precautions, and those whose security practices invited exploitation, says Frederick Livingston at McDonald Baas.

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4 Ways GCs Can Manage Growing Service Of Process Volume

As automation and arbitration increase the volume of legal filings, in-house counsel must build scalable service of process systems that strengthen corporate governance and manage risk in real time, says Paul Mathews at Corporation Service Co.

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Series

Fly-Fishing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Much like skilled attorneys, the best anglers prize preparation, presentation and patience while respecting their adversaries — both human and trout, says Rob Braverman at Braverman Greenspun.

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As Goldstein Trial Begins, Gov't Points To 'Lavish' Lifestyle

By Jared Foretek

An accountant for billionaire investor Alec Gores said that Thomas Goldstein had suggested he open a foreign account for Gores' poker-related transactions or even classify him as a professional player for tax purposes, although Gores was just getting started in the high-stakes poker world.

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Simpson Thacher Offers Stipend To Lure Summer Associates

By Tracey Read

In an effort for Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP to attract top students who want to pursue public interest work, the firm said it will pay a stipend of $42,500 for the 2026-2027 cycle for those who opt to spend their 1L summer in a qualifying public service, government, academic, in-house legal or nonprofit role.

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Calif. Justices Order Prosecutors To Explain Alleged AI Errors

By Dorothy Atkins

The California Supreme Court has ordered Nevada County prosecutors to explain to a lower court why they shouldn't be sanctioned for "apparent serial submission" of artificial intelligence-generated briefs with nonexistent legal citations in multiple criminal proceedings.

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Judiciary AI Rule Draws Fire As Judges Get Deepfakes Survey

By Jeff Overley

Federal judiciary policymakers heard extensive concerns Thursday regarding high-profile plans to formally screen evidence generated with artificial intelligence, and they set the stage for more feedback by preparing an AI survey for every federal trial judge.

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ICE Detention Facilities Nearly Doubled Last Year, Report Says

By Tom Lotshaw

An American Immigration Council report said the Trump administration detained record numbers of noncitizens last year, most without criminal records, and held them in a rapidly expanding network of facilities that could soon rival the federal criminal prison system.

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Fla. High Court Opens Door To Non-ABA Accrediting Entities

By Carolina Bolado

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday changed the bar exam admission requirements to allow graduates of law schools accredited by entities other than the American Bar Association to sit for the Florida bar exam.

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Sens. Advance Indiana Judge Nominee Grilled Over Sermons

By Courtney Bublé

A federal judicial nominee for Indiana who came under scrutiny by a Republican senator for his past sermons as an ordained elder was voted out of committee Thursday alongside five other judicial nominees.

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Trump US Atty Pick In NM Bumped To First Assistant

By Emily Sawicki

A New Mexico federal judge has ruled the Trump-appointed interim U.S. Attorney for New Mexico is not validly serving in the role but declined to disqualify the prosecutor from a slate of cases pending in the district, instead determining the lawyer may continue to work in the federal prosecutor's office as first assistant.

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Wash. Judges To Pick US Atty As Floyd's Term Set To Expire

By Gina Kim

The chief judge for the Western District of Washington on Wednesday announced the court's intent to select a U.S. attorney to serve on a temporary basis if President Donald Trump's pick, Charles Neil Floyd, who has been serving on an interim basis, isn't confirmed by the Senate by next month. 

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