The Most Important Healthcare And Life Science Deals Of 2025
Attorneys taking stock of 2025 spoke to Law360 about the most important deals of the year, including Pfizer’s high-profile acquisition of Metsera and transactions in outpatient services and gene therapy.
Bazelon Center Dir. On Disabilities And Medicaid 'Barriers'
Law360 Healthcare Authority talks to Jennifer Mathis of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law about Medicaid, disability law and what states should do to stop people with impairments from being disenrolled improperly.
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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.
The Most Important Healthcare And Life Science Deals Of 2025
Attorneys taking stock of 2025 spoke to Law360 about the most important deals of the year, including Pfizer’s high-profile acquisition of Metsera and transactions in outpatient services and gene therapy.
Bazelon Center Dir. On Disabilities And Medicaid 'Barriers'
Law360 Healthcare Authority talks to Jennifer Mathis of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law about Medicaid, disability law and what states should do to stop people with impairments from being disenrolled improperly.
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.
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Deals & Corporate Governance More
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Eye disease treatment developer Clearside Biomedical on Friday got permission from a Delaware bankruptcy judge for a January auction of its assets after saying it had resolved objections from shareholders and ... (more story)
BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. has agreed to acquire Amicus Therapeutics for $4.8 billion, in a deal bolstered by Amicus' settlement of patent litigation that secures U.S. exclusivity for its Galafold drug until... (more story)
A health care management company unlawfully denied nurse practitioners overtime wages by misclassifying them as exempt salaried employees, according to a proposed class and collective action filed in Pennsylva... (more story)
A San Francisco grand jury has indicted California telehealth startup Done Global, alleging it had a role in a healthcare fraud conspiracy that involved submitting false claims to government health programs an... (more story)
Private equity-backed medical supplies giant Medline, guided by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, on Tuesday priced an upsized initial public offering, raising $6.26 billion in what will be the largest IPO of 20... (more story)
Digital Health & Technology More
The maker of an in vitro fertilization incubator system has filed a breach of contract lawsuit in Colorado federal court, claiming an artificial-intelligence-based fertility company owes it nearly $900,000 for... (more story)
The U.S. International Trade Commission has had a busy week in intellectual property, determining a series of toy gun imports don't infringe Spin Master patents licensed to Hasbro, instituting reviews requeste... (more story)
A Pennsylvania federal judge has dismissed a proposed data breach class action against Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals Inc. over the named plaintiffs purported inability to serve as leaders of the suit, ... (more story)
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)
Policy & Compliance More
A Massachusetts federal judge spared AstraZeneca unit Alexion on Friday from half of a nonprofit insurer's proposed class action, finding the plaintiff too far removed from anticompetitive patent fraud that al... (more story)
An Illinois-based hospital system bucked civil rights law when it denied a Christian nurse's request for an exemption to its COVID-19 vaccination policy and then fired her, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunit... (more story)
A split Sixth Circuit panel ordered an injunction on Michigan's conversion therapy ban, ruling the law likely places an unconstitutional restriction on the First Amendment rights of a Catholic charitable organ... (more story)
A California federal judge ordered San Francisco to reinstate a 311 call center agent who was fired for violating a COVID-19 vaccination mandate after he sought an exemption based on his Muslim faith, ruling T... (more story)
A Colorado federal judge rejected AstraZeneca's effort to block enforcement of a Colorado law surrounding federal 340B drug pricing that requires manufacturers to sell drugs at discounted prices to certain saf... (more story)
The Trump administration moved to block all hospitals that receive federal funding from providing gender-affirming care to minors and issued warning letters to a dozen companies Thursday as part of a sweeping ... (more story)