J&J Hit With $32M Verdict In LA Baby Powder Cancer Trial

By Craig Clough

A Los Angeles jury Tuesday awarded $32 million to the family of a woman who died of mesothelioma and who said she used Johnson's Baby Powder on herself and her children for decades, finding the product was a substantial factor in causing her illness. 

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Doctor's Sex Conviction Reversed Over Undisclosed Notes

By Elizabeth Daley

A doctor convicted of sexually abusing his patient and other crimes is entitled to a new trial, a New York state appeals court said Wednesday, finding the state failed to disclose social work notes in a timely fashion, which substantially prejudiced the doctor's case.

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NJ High Court Says Nonprofit Hospital Gets Limited Immunity

By Gianna Ferrarin

The New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously concluded Wednesday that a nonprofit federally qualified health center isn't immune from a patient's negligence suit under a statute shielding nonprofits organized "exclusively" for charitable or educational purposes, reversing a lower court's finding to the contrary.

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Estate Says E-Filing Glitch Wrongly Doomed Med Mal Suit

By Susan Smiley

A Michigan appeals court was urged Wednesday to revive a medical malpractice suit that involves the state's Pandemic Healthcare Immunity Act by counsel for a deceased woman's estate who argued a clerical error kept them from receiving motions for summary judgment in the trial court until it was too late to respond.

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Yale Hit With $7.7M Verdict Over Doctor's 'Preventable' Death

By Aaron Keller

Yale New Haven Hospital and Yale University must pay $7.73 million to the family of a doctor and onetime Yale School of Medicine assistant professor who developed an infection following bowel surgery and died five days later, a Connecticut state jury has concluded.

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States Say Trump's DEI Rule For Contractors Is Unclear, Illegal

By Ben Adlin

Attorneys general from 19 states and Washington, D.C., on Wednesday sued numerous federal officials and agencies in an attempt to block the Trump administration's March 26 executive order prohibiting government contractors — including states — from engaging in "racially discriminatory" activity around diversity, equity and inclusion.

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DC Circ. Asked To Freeze DOJ's Medical Pot Rescheduling

By Sam Reisman

A trade association for drug-testing companies and a biopharma firm developing marijuana-derived drugs have urged the D.C. Circuit to hit pause on a U.S. Department of Justice rule rescheduling state-sanctioned medical pot while their challenge to the policy change plays out.

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Lab To Pay $4.9M To Settle AGs' COVID Test Pricing Suit

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Eighteen states' attorneys general have entered into a $4.87 million settlement with GS Labs to resolve claims that the defunct testing company overcharged consumers for COVID-19 tests, according to statements issued Wednesday.

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Insurance Cos. Score Dismissal Of Zepbound Coverage Case

By Kellie Mejdrich

A D.C. federal judge Wednesday agreed to toss a proposed class action against CVS Caremark and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield from a worker who challenged coverage denials for Zepbound to treat sleep apnea, holding an exclusion in his employee health plan that the companies administered complied with federal benefits law.

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NY Judge Says Insurer Owes No Coverage In $1.6M Care Row

By Danielle Ferguson

A New York federal judge said an insurer does not have to defend or indemnify a nursing and rehabilitation facility in a hospital's lawsuit seeking to recover $1.6 million in medical expenses for a former worker, finding Tuesday that the underlying action isn't a covered claim.

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Ga. Panel Won't Revive Health System Wrongful Death Suit

By Kelcey Caulder

One of Georgia's largest healthcare providers was rightly freed from a wrongful death suit filed against it by a group of siblings who allege that their father died in one of its affiliate hospitals after undergoing surgery at a separate hospital in 2017, a state appeals court said. 

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Morgan & Morgan Atty Again Blocked From Harvard Suit

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Massachusetts judge rebuffed a Morgan & Morgan PA attorney's second attempt to appear in a lawsuit over the theft of body parts from a Harvard Medical School morgue, saying he would not reconsider his earlier decision to bar the attorney over an incident in a separate court involving fake AI-generated case citations.

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AmeriHealth Unit, PBM Look To Escape Pharmacy Fee Suit

By Matthew Santoni

The AmeriHealth Caritas Health Plan and its in-house pharmacy benefits manager asked a federal court to toss a proposed class action over "transmission fees," alleging the law that required disclosure of those fees, Pennsylvania's Human Services Code, doesn't let private parties sue.

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NJ Hospital Says Ex-CEO's Inaction At Event Supported Firing

By George Woolston

A New Jersey hospital urged a Garden State federal court to reject a bid from its former CEO for a finding that the hospital breached his employment agreement when it fired him over a topless art exhibit at a fundraising event, arguing that the ex-CEO has misinterpreted its sexual harassment policy.

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Colo. Sober Home Co. Says City Can't Escape Zoning Suit

By MJ Koo

A Colorado sober living home operator has urged a federal court to reject a city's bid to dismiss its lawsuit, arguing that the city's zoning code unlawfully singles out people in recovery from addiction for land use approval requirements that other residents are not subjected to.

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User Says 'Nature's Ozempic' Can't Keep Weight Loss Promise

By Mike Curley

A proposed class of supplement buyers is suing the makers of Metabolism Ignite in California federal court, saying the supplements, advertised as "Nature's Ozempic," can't match the effectiveness of the name-brand medication that the advertisers compare it to.

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Houston Hospital System Settles Retirement Fee, Fund Fight

By Kellie Mejdrich

A Texas hospital system agreed to settle a proposed class action from ex-workers alleging the healthcare nonprofit failed to curb excessive recordkeeping fees and remove underperforming funds from its $2.8 billion employee retirement plan, after a magistrate judge recommended denying its motion to dismiss an amended complaint in May.

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Conn. Woman Says Pharmacy 'Grossly' Exceeded Med Dose

By Brian Steele

A New York compounding pharmacy injured a Connecticut woman by providing her with a medication that contained a "grossly excessive" amount of the active ingredient, as much as 91,511% of the dose on the label, according to a product liability and malpractice lawsuit.

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Molina Says Its Warnings Doom Suit Over Guidance Cuts

By Sydney Price

Health insurance provider Molina Healthcare and two of its executives urged a California federal court to dismiss a shareholder suit accusing them of misleading investors about medical costs and internal controls before repeatedly slashing the company's 2025 earnings guidance, arguing that the nature of its business makes costs unpredictable.

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Abbott Offered Faulty Health Plan Option, Ex-Worker Says

By Patrick Hoff

Abbott Laboratories violated federal benefits law by offering a health plan option with higher premiums and lower deductibles without disclosing that participants would always pay less if they chose a high-deductible plan, according to a proposed class action filed Wednesday in Illinois federal court.

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Judge Won't Certify Class Of Health Workers In No-Poach Suit

By Hailey Konnath

An Illinois federal judge on Wednesday refused to certify a class of former healthcare employees claiming that their wages were suppressed by alleged no-poach agreements among DaVita, UnitedHealth Group's Surgical Care Affiliates and Tenet Healthcare Corp. unit United Surgical Partners International, ruling that the proposed class is too diverse.

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Goodwin, Covington Lead Parabilis' $670M Upsized IPO

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Venture-backed biotechnology firm Parabilis Medicines hit the public markets Wednesday after raising $670 million in its upsized initial public offering.

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Alachua Wants DOD's $147M Chapter 11 Claim Slashed To $5M

By Clara Geoghegan

Biotech group Alachua Government Services asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to trim the U.S. Department of Defense's Chapter 11 claim by $142 million, saying the government relied upon inapplicable federal regulations in claims connected to rejected contracts.

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Manatt Healthcare Pro Jumps To Crowell & Moring In LA

By Tracey Read

A Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP healthcare regulatory partner has joined Crowell & Moring LLP's Los Angeles office, the firm announced Wednesday.

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West Coast Health Cos. Must Brace For Federal Enforcement

In light of the U.S. Department of Justice's newly established West Coast strike force targeting healthcare fraud across Northern California, Arizona and Nevada, health organizations will need to prioritize knowledge, vigilance and operational discipline to reduce exposure from potentially parallel criminal and civil investigations, says Michael Beckwith at Dickinson Wright.

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What Prop 65 Listings For Welding Fumes, Drugs Mean For Cos.

With California poised to add welding chemicals and three medications to its list of known carcinogens under Proposition 65, businesses must assess risks from nontraditional pharmaceutical dispensing, occupational and environmental exposures to welding operations, and downstream exposures from the manufacture of both types of substances, says Gregory Berlin at Alston & Bird.

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PowerSchool Data Breach Ruling Underscores PE Liability

The recent California federal court decision in PowerSchool, where Bain Capital was unable to dismiss claims relating to a data breach based in part on Bain's preinvestment activities, is an important addition to the line of cases addressing investor liability for acts of a portfolio company, says Mark Kelley at MoloLamken.

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Susman Godfrey Beats, Seward & Kissel Matches Milbank Pay

By Tracey Read

At least four more firms have joined the associate pay raise bandwagon, with Seward & Kissel LLP matching the salary scale recently set by Milbank LLP, and Susman Godfrey LLP exceeding it.

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Judicial Noms Say Biden Won, But Critics Fault Their Caveats

By Courtney Bublé

Three district court nominees on Wednesday said President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, a departure from other judicial nominees in the second Trump administration, but court watchers on the left took issue with how they couched those statements.

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Camp Mystic Fights Sanctions Over 'Burn In Hell' Atty Remark

By Lynn LaRowe

Camp Mystic and parents of a girl killed in flooding there last summer faced off Wednesday over whether the camp should be sanctioned because its attorney said a plaintiff's lawyer would "burn in hell" and for other alleged misconduct in litigation over flooding deaths at the Texas camp.

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Ga. Federal Judge Faces 2nd Set Of Impeachment Articles

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia congressman has filed articles of impeachment against a federal judge who was reprimanded for having sex with a police officer in her Atlanta chambers within earshot of staff, the second lawmaker this week to do so. 

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Unions Rally As 5 Shops Approach Contract Deadline

By Andrea Keckley

Legal service providers across New York City gathered in City Hall Park on Wednesday afternoon as five unions represented by the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys approach their deadlines for a new contract at the end of the month.

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'Anti-ICE Vigilantes': DOJ Says Law Clerks Aided Noncitzens

By Lauren Berg

Two state court clerks in Utah are facing criminal charges after federal prosecutors say they acted as "self-appointed anti-ICE vigilantes" by helping noncitizens leave the courthouse by a back door to evade arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to the newly unsealed case.

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