Expert Analysis

AG Watch: Texas Charts A Course On Investigative Authority

The Texas Supreme Court's recent decision in Texas v. PFLAG affirmed, and arguably expanded, the Texas attorney ge... (more story)

Initial Virginia AG Actions Signal Focus On Multistate Efforts

Now that Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones has reached the 100-day mark in office, his first set of actions reve... (more story)

How CMS Fraud Priorities Complicate Provider Acquisitions

As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services steps up usage of its affiliates authority and post-transaction au... (more story)

Deals & Corporate Governance More

IQVIA Accuses Ex-Execs, Syneos Of Poaching $180M Client

IQVIA Holdings Inc. is accusing former executives of defecting to a competitor in the clinical research organization industry and initiating a corporate raid that resulted in the loss of one customer worth at ... (more story)

4 Firms Build Astorg's $1.1B Microbiology Biz Buy

Life sciences company Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. on Monday announced plans to sell its microbiology business to European private equity firm Astorg in an over $1.1 billion deal steered by four law firms.

US, Indian Firms Guide $11.75B Sun Pharma-Organon Deal

Indian pharmaceutical giant Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. has agreed to acquire New Jersey-based Organon & Co. in an all-cash deal valued at $11.75 billion, with each side of the transaction having repres... (more story)

Natera Tells Justices CareDx Made Up Circ. Split In Petition

Natera asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a petition from rival CareDx asking it to review a Third Circuit decision that erased a $45 million jury verdict stemming from CareDx's false advertising claims, s... (more story)

Taxation With Representation: Gibson Dunn, Paul Weiss

In this week's Taxation With Representation, Elon Musk's SpaceX strikes a deal with Cursor that could lead to an acquisition of the artificial intelligence startup, building products distributor QXO Inc. buys ... (more story)

FTC Cuts Deal To End Anesthesia Group Rollup Case

The Federal Trade Commission reached an agreement Thursday to settle its case accusing U.S. Anesthesia Partners Inc. of monopolizing the Texas anesthesia services market by purchasing most of the competing ane... (more story)

Digital Health & Technology More

Deloitte Can't Duck Bulk Of Vax Software Theft Suit

Deloitte must face an inventor's trade secrets misappropriation claims accusing the consulting giant of ripping off her firm's proprietary vaccination management system and securing a multimillion-dollar gover... (more story)

Squires Snubs 10 IPRs While 4 Pass Muster In Latest Order

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires rejected 10 petitions for America Invents Act patent reviews and granted four challenges in an order marking the roughly half-year mark since he took over... (more story)

Colo. Fertility Clinic Must Face Trimmed Data Breach Suit

A Colorado federal judge on Tuesday narrowed a proposed class accusing a fertility clinic of failing to adequately protect patients' health and other personal information swept up in a 2024 data breach, preser... (more story)

DOJ Delay Of ADA Web Rule Undermines Equal Access

The U.S. Department of Justice's recent decision to delay compliance dates for regulations ensuring accessible government services online benefits no one, as it is long overdue for disabled Americans and doesn... (more story)

Health System Says AI Co. Botched $32M Software Project

A San Francisco-based healthcare technology company failed to deliver on promises it would consolidate a Catholic health system's data under a unified platform, breaching a projected $32 million service agreem... (more story)

Oura Hit With New Patent Suit Over Fitness Wearables

Zepp Health has hit Oura Health with a lawsuit in the Eastern District of Texas accusing the Finnish company of infringing a series of patents on wearable fitness devices, the latest salvo in a wider patent fi... (more story)

Policy & Compliance More

CEO Stole From His Company To Buy Mansion, SEC Says

The former CEO of a California-based pharmaceutical company agreed Wednesday to pay the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission $30,000 to end a lawsuit accusing him of misappropriating $3.2 million in company... (more story)

Novo Nordisk Rejects Claim It Influences GLP-1 Market

Pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk told a Texas federal judge that it does not control the GLP-1 market and has not attempted to crush its competition in a bid to dismiss an antitrust suit it is facing.

Mass. AG, Insurer Settle Deceptive Marketing Claims For $5M

A Texas-headquartered health insurance agency will pay $5 million to settle allegations that it engaged in deceptive and unfair marketing to sell plans and other types of health programs to thousands of Massac... (more story)

5th Circ. Will Rehear Aetna Arbitration Bid In Aramark Suit

The full Fifth Circuit will reconsider insurance company Aetna's bid to force uniform and food services company Aramark to arbitrate its dispute over employee health benefit claims, staying a panel's ruling fr... (more story)

AbbVie Seeks Early Win Over HHS In Botox Drug Price Suit

When the federal government included Botox in Medicare's drug price negotiation program, which allows Medicare officials to negotiate for lower drug prices, it overstepped its authority, drugmaker AbbVie Inc. ... (more story)

Medical Equipment Co. Settles Patient Overbilling Claims

Patients who claim Pennsylvania-based AdaptHealth Corp. overcharged them for returned medical equipment have reached the final version of a class settlement and will soon submit it to a North Carolina federal ... (more story)