Kaiser Permanente's health coverage arm must pay more than $82 million to Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center to cover unreimbursed emergency medical services, a California state judge ordered Tuesday, after a state appeals court backed a jury's verdict concerning payment for roughly 4,000 disputed medical service claims.
Kaiser Permanente's health coverage arm must pay more than $82 million to Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center to cover unreimbursed emergency medical services, a California state judge ordered Tuesday, after a state appeals court backed a jury's verdict concerning payment for roughly 4,000 disputed medical service claims.
A D.C. federal judge appeared to agree with health worker organizations challenging new federal student loan caps that there were problems with how the U.S. Department of Education defined "professional degrees" in a recent rulemaking, but suggested that "taking over the job" of the department would be inappropriate.
An FDA drug ad enforcement surge that began last year continued in the first half of 2026. Experts say the agency is looking hard at the overall impression an ad makes, including in broad emotional appeals to consumers.
Federal authorities said Tuesday that artificial intelligence and sophisticated data analysis helped them detect and prosecute healthcare fraud as part of a national crackdown that resulted in charges against 455 defendants.
Healthcare data firm Claritev said the U.S. Department of Justice is ending a grand jury investigation of potential antitrust violations in the health insurance space and is not targeting the company with a criminal probe.
The Connecticut Supreme Court has turned away an insurance company's appeal of a decision that said it can't rely on two policy exclusions to deny professional liability coverage to a fertility doctor accused of fathering two children by secretly impregnating patients with his own sperm.
A Texas woman urged the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to investigate two providers over their alleged violations of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or EMTALA, when she sought treatment for a miscarriage, arguing her case "is not an isolated incident."
UnitedHealth Group won dismissal of some claims in a proposed class action alleging the company mismanaged its employee 401(k) and profit sharing plan by misallocating forfeitures, but couldn't escape allegations that the way the company spent the funds breached fiduciary duties and caused transactions prohibited by federal benefits law.
An insurer for a New Jersey facility for people with disabilities told a federal court Monday that it does not owe coverage in an underlying wrongful death suit because the group home did not inform the insurer of the claim until two years after the suit was filed.
Three union benefit funds lack standing in their lawsuit accusing New York-Presbyterian Hospital of using anticompetitive tactics when negotiating with health insurance companies, the hospital told a New York federal judge, saying the negotiations are between it and the insurers.
Planned Parenthood and regional affiliates were hit with a proposed class action alleging they use hidden tracking tools on their website and patient portals to transmit sensitive sexual and reproductive health information to third-party companies such as Google and Meta without consent.
Sangamo Therapeutics Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection in Delaware on Tuesday with offers to sell parts of its genetic therapy development programs to Eli Lilly and Co. and Astellas Pharma Inc.
The Federal Trade Commission's general requirement for randomized controlled trials for most health-benefit claims, recently embraced by the National Advertising Review Board, lacks legal basis and endangers the existing statutory framework Congress created for marketing food and dietary supplements versus drugs, say attorneys at Keller & Heckman.
U.S. v. Luo, pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, may force courts to address anew when settlement negotiations become criminal extortion, particularly in the age of easily fabricated digital evidence, says attorney Denis Kiely.
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Glenn Agre Bergman & Fuentes LLP will match the Milbank LLP base pay scale for associates, while Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP — which was already paying above-market salaries — will hand out special summer bonuses of up to $25,000, the boutiques told Law360 Pulse Tuesday.
North Carolina has become the first state in the country to ban outside investors from funding civil litigation, after Democratic Gov. Josh Stein signed into law a bill that outlaws third parties from footing the bill for civil suits in exchange for a cut of the payout at the finish line.
A California federal judge Tuesday vacated the Trump administration's policies on civil arrests at immigration courthouses, restoring limits on those arrests and finding that the government didn't adequately explain its policy shift.
New York's Appellate Division has adopted new rules of professional conduct on attorney advertising and solicitation, deleting a ban on soliciting clients less than 30 days after an incident.
A group of judicial nominees, who earlier this month were the first of the Trump administration's nominees to say President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, reiterated in follow-up statements that Biden won the election "as a matter of law" — doubling down on what critics say is an equivocation on the election's outcome.
A Maryland federal judge has elaborated on her decision to deny SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein's bid for an acquittal or new trial, saying that the evidence presented at trial either supersedes or invalidates his claims of issues with jury instructions and insufficient or excluded evidence.
A Texas state court has handed a win to Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and a Mississippi law firm, which sought dismissal of claims that they conspired with Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter to retaliate against Houston personal injury firm The Buzbee Law Firm and two of its former clients.
A former in-house attorney for AT&T, accused of leaking privileged information to opposing counsel while seeking a share of financial gains from a lawsuit filed 18 years ago against the company, has been charged with violating attorney professional conduct rules.
A Florida federal judge on Tuesday allowed Brazil to intervene in a suit by President Donald Trump's media company and online video-sharing platform Rumble Inc. against a Brazilian Supreme Federal Court justice's gag orders but deferred ruling on Brazil's motion to dismiss the suit.
