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Lax Enforcement Spurs Suits Over Insurers' 'Ghost' Networks
More patients are alleging that what are known as insurers' ghost networks — directories full of unreachable providers — deny them access to mental health care. Their counsel say scarce enforcement is just one of the problems.
PE-Backed Medical Supplies Giant Medline Eyes $5B IPO
Private equity-backed medical supplies behemoth Medline has outlined terms for its long-awaited initial public offering, telling U.S. regulators that it plans to raise about $5 billion in what would mark the largest IPO of 2025.
Fed. Circ. Erases $41.8M Verdict Over Seagen Cancer Drug IP
The Federal Circuit in a precedential opinion Tuesday reversed a $41.8 million verdict against Daiichi Sankyo for infringing a Seagen breast cancer treatment patent, saying a lower court should have found that the patent didn't adequately describe the claimed invention or enable a skilled person to use it.
Lax Enforcement Spurs Suits Over Insurers' 'Ghost' Networks
More patients are alleging that what are known as insurers' ghost networks — directories full of unreachable providers — deny them access to mental health care. Their counsel say scarce enforcement is just one of the problems.
PE-Backed Medical Supplies Giant Medline Eyes $5B IPO
Private equity-backed medical supplies behemoth Medline has outlined terms for its long-awaited initial public offering, telling U.S. regulators that it plans to raise about $5 billion in what would mark the largest IPO of 2025.
Fed. Circ. Erases $41.8M Verdict Over Seagen Cancer Drug IP
The Federal Circuit in a precedential opinion Tuesday reversed a $41.8 million verdict against Daiichi Sankyo for infringing a Seagen breast cancer treatment patent, saying a lower court should have found that the patent didn't adequately describe the claimed invention or enable a skilled person to use it.
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Pharmaceutical company Cencora Inc. unveiled plans Monday to acquire a majority stake in cancer care company OneOncology for $5 billion, buying interest from private equity shop TPG in a deal built by three law firms.
Executives and directors of health insurance provider Molina Healthcare were hit with a shareholder's derivative suit Friday accusing them of misleading investors about medical cost trends and internal control... (more story)
A Maryland federal judge signed off on the U.S. Department of Justice settlement resolving its challenge to UnitedHealth's $3.3 billion acquisition of home health and hospice company Amedisys, under a deal req... (more story)
Insurer Elevance Health has appointed former Pfizer Inc. general counsel Amy Schulman, currently a managing partner of Polaris Partners, to serve on its board of directors.
Private equity-backed diagnostic imaging provider Lumexa Imaging Holdings Inc., led by Sidley Austin LLP, began trading Thursday on the Nasdaq Global Select Market after pricing a $463 million initial public offering.
Perimeter Solutions Inc. has agreed to acquire Medical Manufacturing Technologies LLC from Arcline Investment Management for approximately $685 million in cash, including certain tax benefits.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton hit Epic Systems Corp. with an antitrust suit in state court on Wednesday alleging the company is illegally seeking to monopolize markets for electronic health records software.
An Illinois state appeals court affirmed the dismissal of a man's suit claiming two State Farm life insurers violated Illinois' genetic information privacy law, finding a section barring the use of genetic pro... (more story)
Over 1.6 million patients affected by HealthEC's cybersecurity attack in 2023 asked a New Jersey magistrate judge for her final stamp of approval on a $5.48 million class action settlement, arguing Monday the ... (more story)
Apple Inc. has told the Federal Circuit that the U.S. International Trade Commission's decision last month to review whether a redesigned Apple Watch infringes Masimo Corp. patents "underscores the need" for t... (more story)
A trio of Dechert LLP partners, including the co-chair of its global intellectual property practice, have joined Cooley LLP alongside a team of special counsel, associates and patent agents, the firm announced Tuesday.
A Georgia-based medical billing practice asked a federal judge to dismiss a proposed class action accusing it of failing to properly secure its patients and employees' personal information that was exposed in ... (more story)
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Multiple attorneys general have told a Connecticut federal court that Sandoz Inc. and Fougera Pharmaceuticals Inc. can't claim the states' grievances over allegations of price fixing are duplicative of claims ... (more story)
The U.S. Department of Justice waded into a Tennessee veterinary school's antitrust case challenging the American Veterinary Medical Association's accreditation requirements, raising concerns about the risk po... (more story)
North Carolina's "certificate of need" law hasn't created a monopoly nor has it restricted an eye surgeon's right to earn a living, a state court panel ruled Friday, ending for now the surgeon's yearslong suit... (more story)
An Illinois appellate court Friday agreed with Abbott Laboratories that 23 lawsuits alleging the company failed to warn of important risks associated with infant formulas and caused premature babies to develop... (more story)
A pharmaceutical industry trade group and the state of Connecticut have signaled their intent to settle a feud over the interpretation of the state's generic drug price cap law, and a federal judge gave them u... (more story)
A Connecticut judge has hit Yale University and Yale New Haven Hospital with a nearly $32 million verdict over the death of a premature baby, finding doctors failed to obtain either informed consent, or any co... (more story)