MAHA, Telehealth And Deals: The Forecast From HLTH
With the close of the annual HLTH conference in Las Vegas, Law360 Healthcare Authority talked with healthcare lawyers and business leaders about this year's big themes and what they see coming for a fast-changing industry.
Colo. Appellate Panel Backs Order To Donate Pre-Embryos
Colorado appellate judges have upheld a state trial court finding that a nonmarried couple must donate their cryogenically preserved pre-embryos that were created before the dissolution of their relationship.
Tylenol Autism Warning May Face Legal, Free Speech Hurdles
The Trump administration’s plan to add an autism warning to Tylenol's labeling could generate procedural and First Amendment challenges. Legal experts expect federal officials’ own words will be used against them.
MAHA, Telehealth And Deals: The Forecast From HLTH
With the close of the annual HLTH conference in Las Vegas, Law360 Healthcare Authority talked with healthcare lawyers and business leaders about this year's big themes and what they see coming for a fast-changing industry.
Colo. Appellate Panel Backs Order To Donate Pre-Embryos
Colorado appellate judges have upheld a state trial court finding that a nonmarried couple must donate their cryogenically preserved pre-embryos that were created before the dissolution of their relationship.
Tylenol Autism Warning May Face Legal, Free Speech Hurdles
The Trump administration’s plan to add an autism warning to Tylenol's labeling could generate procedural and First Amendment challenges. Legal experts expect federal officials’ own words will be used against them.
Expert Analysis
Following the Cigna class action's settlement, where Employee Retirement Income Security Act violations arose from... (more story)
New draft guidance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, along with other recent initiatives, come together ... (more story)
As federal agencies target wound care industry fraud as a top enforcement priority, attorneys advising industry st... (more story)
Deals & Corporate Governance More
The U.S. Department of Justice asked a Maryland federal judge Monday to appoint a Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman PC shareholder as compliance monitor as part of the settlement allowing UnitedHealth Group's ... (more story)
The Delaware Chancery Court has tapped Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP and Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP to lead stockholder litigation over an $8.9 billion take-private deal, citing the firms' al... (more story)
Huggies maker Kimberly-Clark Corp. announced Monday it will acquire Tylenol parent company Kenvue at an enterprise value of approximately $48.7 billion, with four firms steering the transaction.
The Georgia Court of Appeals on Friday vacated a trial court's decision in eight toxic tort bellwether suits claiming harmful emissions from a Sterigenics sterilization plant caused cancer and birth defects, s... (more story)
Biopharmaceutical company BioAge Labs Inc. has, for now, escaped a suit alleging investors were hurt by plummeting share prices after the company unexpectedly halted a clinical trial for a weight loss drug, sa... (more story)
A Georgia appellate panel on Thursday backed an ambulance company's defense verdict in a wrongful death lawsuit, ruling that a man suing the company for negligence in transporting his mother to a hospital "can... (more story)
Digital Health & Technology More
A manufacturer of emergency response drones is characterizing a state court lawsuit brought by its former vice president of sales that claims he was shortchanged on pay and commissions as the grumblings of a "... (more story)
Intuitive Surgical urged the Ninth Circuit not to revive a surgical repair company's claims alleging it blocked third parties from refurbishing components for its popular da Vinci surgery robot, defending the ... (more story)
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. said on Wednesday it will acquire Clario Holdings Inc., a provider of endpoint data solutions for clinical trials, from a shareholder group led by Astorg, Nordic Capital, Novo Hol... (more story)
A California federal judge has refused to release CVS Pharmacy Inc. and a marketing partner from a putative class action accusing them of illegally intercepting personal health information from those who visit... (more story)
A California federal judge issued a mixed ruling in Masimo's case claiming Apple infringed its patents covering pulse oximetry technology for smartwatches, dismissing certain infringement theories but preservi... (more story)
Smart ring maker Oura has hit Samsung with patent claims in Texas federal court, alleging the Korean electronics giant had been challenging Oura's patents in the U.S. before the launch of its allegedly infring... (more story)
Policy & Compliance More
An Illinois federal judge has refused to grant a new trial to whistleblowers who said grocery chain SuperValu systematically overbilled the government for prescription drugs, finding there was no issue with ju... (more story)
A Colorado federal judge denied AbbVie Inc.'s bid for a preliminary injunction, which would have barred the state from enforcing its laws and penalties surrounding federal 340B drug pricing.
A Connecticut federal judge on Friday refused to throw out the vast majority of claims in a nationwide antitrust enforcement action accusing a long list of pharmaceutical companies of fixing the prices of gene... (more story)
Amgen has once again sued Colorado over its price cap for the arthritis drug Enbrel, claiming that the Centennial State's drug price-control statute violates the U.S. Constitution, conflicts with federal paten... (more story)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration failed to sufficiently justify restrictions on the abortion drug mifepristone, a Hawaii federal judge ruled in an order declaring the restrictions unlawful under the Admin... (more story)
Aetna has agreed to pay up to $650,000 to resolve a class action claiming it unlawfully refused to cover liposuction for over two dozen patients with a rare condition called lipedema, according to a filing in ... (more story)