Expert Analysis

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)

Mapping Philly US Atty's White Collar Enforcement Push

Attorneys at Blank Rome discuss the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania David Metcalf’s commitm... (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)

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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)

Commure Took Health Co.'s Software Trade Secrets, Suit Says

A San Diego-based healthcare technology services company has accused Commure Inc. of stealing trade secrets to launch competing cloud-based software, framing the alleged conduct as an instance of a large compa... (more story)

Nourish Can't Ax Wiretap Claims In Google Data Sharing Row

An Illinois federal judge has refused to cut wiretap and negligence claims from a proposed class action accusing telehealth provider Nourish Inc. of deploying tracking tools that illegally transmitted website ... (more story)

7th Circ. Says Fed. Laws Don't Preempt Wis. Vape Sale Ban

The Seventh Circuit declined Tuesday to revive vaping interest groups' bid to halt enforcement of a Wisconsin law banning sales of e-cigarettes that aren't approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, fi... (more story)

Policy & Compliance More

Ohio Justices Nix 'Would Have Been Married' Obergefell Test

The Ohio Supreme Court held Tuesday that a state law establishing parental rights for the spouse of a woman who conceives a child through artificial insemination doesn't retroactively apply to same-sex couples... (more story)

Ex-Fauci Adviser Charged With Concealing COVID Records

Federal prosecutors have charged a former adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci with deleting government emails and using his personal email account to dodge public records requests about the origins of the COVID-19 virus.

Purdue Pharma's $5.5B Plea Deal Sealed As Survivors Protest

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP has to pay a $3.5 billion fine and forfeit an additional $2 billion, more than five years after it pled guilty to criminal charges related to its role in the opioid crisis, a N... (more story)

Attys Want To See Examples In New Mental Health Parity Rule

The Trump administration's plans to promulgate new regulations governing mental health parity requirements for employee health plans are currently causing headaches for benefits attorneys, but a rule that incl... (more story)

MedMal Case Volume Declines, But Doctor Risks Remain High

While the volume of malpractice lawsuits against U.S. physicians has dropped in recent years, that doesn't mean the threat of legal liability is dissipating, according to a report released Monday by the Americ... (more story)

Mich. Health System Inks $1.9M Deal To End ERISA Suit

A Michigan health system agreed to pay $1.9 million to resolve a suit claiming it failed to kick an underperforming investment fund from its workers' retirement plan, causing employees to lose out on millions in savings.