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January 13, 2025
Amid Claims Of Agency Bias, DEA Judge Nixes Pot Hearings
A Drug Enforcement Administration tribunal on Monday canceled planned hearings on the merits of a proposal to loosen federal restrictions on marijuana so that pro-rescheduling parties can bring their allegations of agency bias straight to the DEA's administrator.
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January 13, 2025
California's AG Warns Businesses State Is Not AI 'Wild West'
California Attorney General Rob Bonta warned businesses on Monday that the state is not the "wild west" of artificial intelligence and has various laws on the books preventing the technology from being used to discriminate or violate people's rights.
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January 13, 2025
Blue Cross Can't Skirt NC Hospital's Defamation Claims
A local hospital can pursue some of its defamation claims against Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina in a suit alleging the health insurer wrongly denied millions of dollars in reimbursements and falsely accused the facility of fraud, a federal judge ruled Monday.
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January 13, 2025
Ozempic Maker Says Atlanta Clinic Misuses TM To Sell Meds
Novo Nordisk, the pharmaceutical company that makes weight loss drugs Ozempic, Rybelsus and Wegovy, filed suit against an Atlanta anti-aging treatment center in Georgia federal court Friday, alleging trademark infringement, false advertising, unfair competition and deceptive trade practices.
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January 13, 2025
RFK Jr.'s Wash. Anti-Vax Suit Can't Get High Court Save
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s bid for an emergency order to temporarily block a state of Washington medical board investigation into alleged anti-vaccine statements made by retired doctors.
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January 13, 2025
5 Firms Steer Up-To-$750M Sale Of Life Molecular Imaging
Radiopharmaceutical-focused company Lantheus Holdings Inc. announced plans Monday to buy Life Molecular Imaging Ltd. for up to $750 million in a deal built by five law firms.
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January 13, 2025
Lilly To Buy Scorpion Cancer Program For Up To $2.5B
Ropes & Gray LLP-led Eli Lilly and Co. said Monday it has agreed to purchase a precision breast cancer program of biotechnology company Scorpion Therapeutics Inc. for up to $2.5 billion.
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January 13, 2025
Cannabis Co. Again Seeks Dismissal Of Finder's Fee Suit
The Cannabist Co. Holdings Inc. is asking a New York federal court to once again throw out a suit from an associate alleging he is owed $800,000 for facilitating an investment, saying New York law bars oral finder's fee contracts and the claims are still blocked by the statute of limitations.
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January 13, 2025
Proskauer Faces Revived DQ Bid In NJ Hospital Antitrust Fight
CarePoint Health is once again pushing to have Proskauer Rose LLP disqualified as counsel for healthcare network RWJBarnabas Health Inc. in an antitrust lawsuit in New Jersey federal court, asserting that a magistrate judge erred in previously denying its request.
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January 13, 2025
$13.4M Suit Against Insurer For Conn. Death Verdict Paused
A Connecticut state court judge has rejected Hanover Insurance Co.'s bid to dismiss a mother's lawsuit seeking to partially enforce a $13.4 million trial judgment over her son's death in a group home, but agreed to pause the matter while the group home appeals the verdict.
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January 13, 2025
PBMs' Federal Work Irrelevant To Opioid Suit, Mich. AG Says
Michigan's attorney general urged a federal judge Friday to send a case accusing pharmacy benefit managers of stoking the opioid crisis back to the state court where it was originally filed, saying there is nothing federal about the claims.
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January 13, 2025
Ex-Benefytt Affiliate Violated Consumer Laws, Suit Says
A telemarketing firm that worked with health insurance broker Benefytt Technologies repeatedly violated Massachusetts consumer protection and do-not-call laws, a consumer has alleged in state court.
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January 13, 2025
Cravath-Led J&J Paying $14.6B For Neuropsychiatric Drug Co.
Johnson & Johnson said Monday it has agreed to purchase Intra-Cellular Therapies Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on therapies for neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders, for approximately $14.6 billion.
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January 13, 2025
Feds Say NC Medical Biz Owner Overbilled For Nutrient Drinks
A North Carolina businessman who ran a durable medical equipment business under multiple names overbilled the state's Medicaid program $1.85 million for special enteral nutritional formulas used to treat inherited metabolic disorders when he was actually just providing people common nutritional shakes like Ensure, the federal government said.
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January 13, 2025
Nvidia's Healthcare Ambitions Grow In New Partnerships
Nvidia announced Monday that it has inked four new healthcare partnerships, a move that comes on the first day of the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco.
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January 12, 2025
Hospital Operator Hits Ch. 11 With $1B-Plus Debt, Sale Plans
Listing more than $1 billion in debts, California-based hospital operator Prospect Medical Holdings Inc. and several subsidiaries on Saturday filed a Chapter 11 petition in bankruptcy court in the Northern District of Texas, saying they intend to advance the planned sales of several facilities and refocus on operations in their home state.
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January 10, 2025
Intuitive Rips VP's Credibility In Robo-Surgery Antitrust Trial
An ex-Surgical Instrument Service executive testifying Friday in a federal antitrust trial over claims Intuitive Surgical abuses its market power said hospitals welcomed its service extending an Intuitive surgical robot component's life, but Intuitive's lawyer slammed the executive's credibility by noting his firing over abusing expenses and other concerns.
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January 10, 2025
Masimo, Apple Fight Over Watch IP In Post-Bench Trial Briefs
Masimo and Apple have submitted dueling briefs to a California federal judge following a trade secret retrial over health sensing technology in Apple's smartwatches, with Masimo maintaining Apple poached its employees to steal its intellectual property and Apple contending Masimo failed for years to "back up their spurious claims" of misappropriation.
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January 10, 2025
Infosys Files Antitrust Counterclaims In Trade Secrets Suit
Healthcare payments software company Infosys has hit back with antitrust counterclaims against Cognizant TriZetto Software Group's Texas federal court suit accusing Infosys of abusing its system access to develop competing services.
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January 10, 2025
Health Co. Wants To Quit Nicotine Surcharge Suit
Nonprofit health system Advocate Aurora Health is urging an Illinois federal judge to permanently toss former employees' lawsuit targeting an allegedly illegal tobacco-use surcharge in its health plan, arguing that after three tries they still have failed to bring a viable claim.
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January 10, 2025
4 Trends That Will Shape Venture Capital Funding In 2025
Venture capital funding appears primed to improve in 2025 as market participants shake off the effects of a post-pandemic crash, with surging demand for artificial intelligence, expectations of friendlier government policies, and more exits through public listings and acquisitions.
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January 10, 2025
Tech Co., Feds Seek Wins In Commercial Item Preference Row
A tech company is asking a federal judge to block the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from proceeding with solicitations that stand to replace so-called batCAVE and Signal software it developed that is already providing the desired functionality.
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January 10, 2025
Social Media Apps Fail To Trim Calif. Mental Health Mass Tort
Meta Platforms, YouTube, Snap and TikTok have lost a bid to cut failure-to-warn claims from consolidated litigation over their social media platforms' alleged harm to youth mental health, with a California state judge ruling that neither the Communications Decency Act nor the First Amendment bar liability based on an app's own features.
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January 10, 2025
Home Care Co. Must Pay $15M In DOL OT Suit
An Ohio federal judge granted the U.S. Department of Labor a win in its lawsuit accusing a third-party home care agency of failing to pay employees overtime and ordered the company to pay $15 million in unpaid wages and damages.
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January 10, 2025
Justices To Review ACA Preventive Care Fight
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to review a Fifth Circuit decision finding a task force setting coverage requirements on preventive care was unconstitutional, setting up a high-stakes battle over the Affordable Care Act that could affect individuals' insurance coverage for things like colon and breast cancer screenings.
Expert Analysis
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It's No Longer Enough For Firms To Be Trusted Advisers
Amid fierce competition for business, the transactional “trusted adviser” paradigm from which most firms operate is no longer sufficient — they should instead aim to become trusted partners with their most valuable clients, says Stuart Maister at Strategic Narrative.
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Vertex Suit Highlights Issues For Pharma Fertility Support
Vertex Pharmaceuticals' recent lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' interpretation of the Anti-Kickback Statute is influenced by a number of reproductive rights and health equity issues that the Office of Inspector General should address more concretely, including in vitro fertilization and fertility preservation programs, says Mary Kohler at Kohler Health Law.
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Opinion
CMS' New 'Breakthrough' Device Policy Shows Little Promise
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ recent procedural notice outlining a new Medicare coverage pathway for breakthrough medical devices will, at best, be a failed experiment and, at worst, result in Medicare beneficiaries denied access to innovative treatments, say attorneys at King & Spalding.
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Assessing Algorithmic Versus Generative AI Pricing Tools
A comparison of traditional algorithmic pricing models and those powered by generative artificial intelligence can help regulators and practitioners weigh the pros and cons of relying on large language models to price products or services, say Maxime Cohen at McGill University, and Tim Spittle and Jimmy Royer at Analysis Group.
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SBA Proposal Materially Alters Contractor Recertification
The Small Business Administration's new proposed rule on recertification affects eligibility for set-aside contracts, significantly alters the landscape for mergers and acquisitions in the government contracts industry, and could have other unintended downstream consequences, says Sam Finnerty at PilieroMazza.
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A Preview Of AI Priorities Under The Next President
For the first time in a presidential election, both of the leading candidates and their parties have been vocal about artificial intelligence policy, offering clues on the future of regulation as AI continues to advance and congressional action continues to stall, say attorneys at Mintz.
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How Companies Are Approaching Insider Trading Policies
An analysis of insider trading policies recently disclosed by 49 S&P 500 companies under a new U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule reveals that while specific provisions vary from company to company, certain common themes are emerging, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.
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11 Patent Cases To Watch At Fed. Circ. And High Court
As we head into fall, there are 11 patent cases to monitor, touching on a range of issues that could affect patent strategy, such as biotech innovation, administrative rulemaking and patent eligibility, say Edward Lanquist and Wesley Barbee at Baker Donelson.
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Managing Community Health Needs Assessments: A Checklist
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
To guide nonprofit hospitals and health systems through their required community health needs assessment every three years, this checklist outlines the steps for 12 phases of the process.
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How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations
Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.
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7th Circ. Rulings Offer Employee Vaccine Exemption Guidance
Dawn Solowey and Samantha Brooks at Seyfarth explain how two recent Seventh Circuit rulings in Passarella v. Aspirus and Bube v. Aspirus could affect litigation involving employee vaccine exemptions, and discuss employer best practices for handling accommodation requests that include both religious and secular concerns.
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Pa. Health Employers Must Prep For Noncompete Restrictions
Newly enacted legislation in Pennsylvania prohibits certain noncompete covenants for healthcare practitioners in the state beginning next year, creating compliance challenges that both employers and employees should be aware of, say attorneys at Buchanan Ingersoll.
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Opinion
Congress Must Do More To Bolster ERISA Protections
As the Employee Retirement Income Security Act turns 50 this month, we applaud Congress for championing a statute that protects worker and retiree rights, but further action is needed to ban arbitration clauses in plan provisions and codify regulations imperiled by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Chevron ruling, say Michelle Yau and Eleanor Frisch at Cohen Milstein.
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FTC Focus: What Access To Patent Settlements Would Mean
Settling parties should adopt a series of practice tips, including specifying rationales to support specific terms, as the Federal Trade Commission seeks to expand its access to settlements before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, say Shannon McGowan and David Munkittrick at Proskauer.
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Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles
Volunteering and nonprofit board service are complementary to, but distinct from, traditional pro bono work, and taking on these community leadership roles can produce dividends for lawyers, their firms and the nonprofit causes they support, says Katie Beacham at Kilpatrick.