Albertsons Slow To Review Wash. Opioid Sales, Judge Told

By Ben Adlin

Albertsons conducted few reviews of opioid dispensing by its Washington pharmacies for years after establishing a controlled substances compliance team, according to testimony played on Day 3 of a bench trial in the state's lawsuit accusing the company and its Safeway subsidiary of exacerbating Washington's opioid epidemic.

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Covidien Hid Mesh Risk From Doctors, Bellwether Jury Told

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Massachusetts federal jury in the first bellwether trial over Covidien LP's hernia mesh products was told Wednesday that doctors were not warned about how quickly a safety feature could dissolve after the mesh is implanted in a patient's body.

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Glenmark Reaches $29M Deal In Generics Price-Fixing Case

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Inc. and 48 states and territories have reached a $29.6 million settlement resolving allegations the company fixed prices in the generic pharmaceuticals market.

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Local Gov'ts Seek To Bar HHS Teen Health Program Changes

By Gianna Ferrarin

A group of local governments and health nonprofits urged a D.C. federal court Wednesday to block recent federal mandates requiring Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program grant recipients to incorporate abstinence education and other changes to their reproductive health programming, arguing the changes are arbitrary and capricious.

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NC Panel Nixes Nurse Noncompetes For Being 'Too Broad'

By Abigail Harrison

A medical clinic provider couldn't convince a North Carolina state appeals court to overturn a ruling that noncompete agreements for two former nurses were unenforceable, after a split panel ruled Wednesday that the terms were overly broad and voidable under public policy.

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Circuit-By-Circuit Guide To The US Supreme Court's Term

By Jeff Overley

Federal appeals courts had wide-ranging successes and struggles during the U.S. Supreme Court's recently completed term: One had its best showing in years following its worst showing in years; one felt déjà vu after recently starting to find favor with the justices; and one saw its reputation for independence occupy a rare role in the Supreme Court spotlight.

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Personal Injury & Med Mal Cases To Watch In 2nd Half Of 2026

By Y. Peter Kang

A trial in a suit brought by 29 states accusing Meta's Facebook and Instagram of causing young people to become addicted and a third bellwether trial in the Uber sexual assault multidistrict litigation are among the cases injury and malpractice attorneys will be following closely in the second half of 2026.

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Mass. Says UnitedHealth FCA Case Belongs In State Court

By Julie Manganis

Massachusetts asked a federal judge to send its $100 million state False Claims Act lawsuit alleging overbilling by UnitedHealthcare back to state court, accusing the insurer of forum shopping with a theoretical defense touching on federal law.

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NC's WakeMed Hit With $18.2M Verdict Over Birth Injury Claim

By Jonathan Capriel

A North Carolina hospital system was hit with an $18.2 million jury verdict over claims its doctor botched a delivery, causing a newborn to lose all ability to use his left arm for life.

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DC Circ. Affirms Ratings For Alignment Medicare Plans

By Elaine Briseño

The D.C. Circuit sided with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regarding its decision not to discard certain unfavorable surveys for Alignment Healthcare's Medicare Advantage plans, saying there is no indication of an administrative error.

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Acorda Can't Add $66M To Award In Ampyra Royalty Fight

By Caroline Simson

The Second Circuit on Wednesday refused to alter an arbitral award issued to Acorda Therapeutics to include nearly $66 million beyond the $16.6 million it won in a multiple sclerosis drug dispute, saying the company "slept on its rights" and couldn't change the result now.

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2nd Circ. Revives NY Provider's BCBS Underpayment Suit

By Hope Patti

The Second Circuit on Wednesday revived a New York healthcare provider's suit accusing out-of-state Blue Cross Blue Shield licensees of underpaying insurance claims, saying the carriers' long-standing business relationship with a New York licensee to obtain preferential prices in the state supports jurisdiction there.

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United Owes $630K In Fight Over Teen's Mental Health Care

By Grace Elletson

United Healthcare must pay $630,000 to a mother who challenged the insurance company's decision to deny coverage for her son's residential mental health treatment, a Utah federal judge ordered, after rejecting the company's bid to slim her requests for interest and attorney fees.

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NJ Justices Rule Fraud Law Applies To Insurance Brokers 

By George Woolston

Insurance brokers, producers and agents are not exempt from the Consumer Fraud Act under an exception for semiprofessionals, the New Jersey Supreme Court held Wednesday, reviving a neurosurgeon's allegation his insurance broker negligently failed to obtain sufficient disability insurance for him after he developed a vision condition.

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Health Co. Nears Deal To End Telemarketing Co. Breach Fight

By Kellie Mejdrich

A Florida judge agreed Wednesday to hold off on deciding a motion to stay proceedings in a breach of contract action brought by a telemarketing company that federal regulators accuse of selling $91 million in fake Obamacare plans, after the defendants told the court they're close to a settlement.

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What To Watch In Massachusetts In The 2nd Half Of 2026

By Chris Villani

As midsummer approaches, Massachusetts attorneys are focused on much more than just the Red Sox winning streak and the fallout from the Jaylen Brown trade; from a headline-grabbing federal prosecution to the midterm elections to cases that could shape the state's noncompete laws, practitioners have plenty on their radar in the latter half of the year.

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Pot Co. Partner Sues Over Contract Breaches, Upcoming Sale

By Mike Curley

A co-owner of a Mississippi dispensary is suing the company and its majority owner, alleging that it's been in breach of contract as it hasn't fully paid out his distributions and is contemplating a sale without his consent.

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Brazil Cancer Treatment Co. To Restructure $1B Debt

By Emily Lever

Oncoclínicas do Brasil Servicos Medicos SA, the owner of a number of cancer clinics across Brazil, has announced it is entering into an out-of-court restructuring to address 5.1 billion reais ($1 billion) in unsecured debt.

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WilmerHale Adds Drug Pricing Regulatory Expert In Denver

By Gianna Ferrarin

WilmerHale added an attorney to its Denver office with experience advising pharmaceutical manufacturers and other life sciences clients on drug pricing regulatory issues, continuing a string of new hires with expertise in the industry.

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How Litigants Are Testing Conversion Therapy Ruling's Scope

Litigants are already using the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Chiles v. Salazar ruling, which applied strict scrutiny to Colorado’s conversion therapy ban, to challenge laws limiting algorithmic rental pricing, artificial intelligence-based discrimination and anti-union employer speech, and courts must soon decide Chiles’ First Amendment limits, say attorneys at O'Melveny.

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Illinois Audit Law Will Make AI Clauses Actually Enforceable

A law recently enacted in Illinois creates a first-in-the-nation requirement for artificial intelligence developers to undergo annual audits, providing objective standards that can be incorporated into private contracts and addressing the problem of defining responsible AI use, says William Tanenbaum at Moses & Singer.

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Simpson Thacher Put Co. Out Of Business, Fla. Jury Told

By Cara Salvatore

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP put an insurance services company out of business with a poorly constructed private securities offering, the company's founder told a Florida state jury Wednesday in opening arguments for trial in his suit alleging the law firm owes him more than $100 million.

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New Conn. High Court Rules Put Filers On Hook For AI Errors

By Aaron Keller

The Connecticut Appellate and Supreme Courts have published new generative artificial intelligence rules which took immediate effect this week, outlining additional paths for sanctions as the justices weigh the fate of a landlord's attorney who admitted his filings contained ChatGPT-induced errors.

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Cornyn, Tillis Still Waver On Blanche AG Bid After Hearing

By Courtney Bublé

Todd Blanche had his nomination hearing to be attorney general on Wednesday and two key Republican senators still have yet to say if they will support him.

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Senate Confirms Fla. Judge Pick Tied To Trump Pulitzer Case

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 51-46, along party lines, Wednesday to confirm state Chief Judge Jeffrey T. Kuntz for the Southern District of Florida.

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Apple Allowed To Question Withdrawing Hagens ICloud Client

By Bryan Koenig

A California federal judge has allowed Apple to impose conditions on the withdrawal of a Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP client as a named plaintiff from an iCloud antitrust case, concluding that the consumer's information could be "relevant to spoliation sanctions" or Hagens Berman's adequacy as class counsel.

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Polsinelli, Doctor Seek Toss Of 'Bad Faith' Patent Claims

By Elliot Weld

Polsinelli PC and a doctor who has been a client of the law firm have asked Mississippi and Tennessee federal courts to throw out Zavation Medical Products LLC and Choice Spine LLC's allegations that the firm and its client violated respective state laws by bringing "bad faith" patent infringement claims, saying the statutes the medical device makers rely on can't be brought by distributors or manufacturers.

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Trump Swiftly Fires Court-Appointed Seattle US Atty

By Lauren Berg

Almost immediately after being sworn in as Seattle's new U.S. attorney Wednesday morning, former King County Superior Court judge and federal prosecutor Roger Rogoff was fired by President Donald Trump.

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Dems Probe Clayton's Independence, 2020 Election Views

By Tom Lotshaw

During a Wednesday confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump's pick for national intelligence director, Democratic lawmakers pressed Jay Clayton to explain whether predecessor Tulsi Gabbard should have traveled to Georgia to oversee a search warrant executed at a Fulton County election facility, which she testified the president asked for.

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