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
New draft guidance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, along with other recent initiatives, come together ...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)
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has systematically strengthened his office to fill federal enforcement gaps,... (more story)
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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)
The North Carolina Attorney General's Office and HCA Healthcare have offered competing interpretations of a 2019 merger agreement in their efforts to secure a pretrial win in the state's compliance case involv... (more story)
The Federal Circuit sided with generics makers Thursday and upheld the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's invalidation of claims in two Merck KGaA patents on the blockbuster multiple sclerosis drug Mavenclad, whi... (more story)
A Massachusetts federal judge has teed up Takeda Pharmaceutical for trial next year on claims from health insurers, self-insured employers, retailers and wholesalers accusing it of paying Par Pharmaceuticals t... (more story)
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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)
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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)
Garnet Health Medical Center has agreed to fork over $4.6 million to end a proposed class action alleging the New York healthcare network mismanaged employee retirement plan fees and investments, according to ... (more story)
The Third Circuit will hear a union's appeal in a withdrawal liability battle, a union health plan defends its partial win in a coverage fight at the Ninth Circuit, and pharmacy benefit managers will take a ch... (more story)