/health?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Health Copyright 2025 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½. en-US Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:52:21 +0000 /health/articles/2394316?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2394316 Though law firms are free to discipline employees for their online commentary about Charlie Kirk or other social media activity, saying crude or insensitive things on the internet generally doesn’t subject attorneys to professional discipline under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, says Stacie H. Rosenzweig at Halling & Cayo. Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:50:11 +0000 /health/articles/2394875?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2394875 An attorney with more than three decades of experience representing healthcare providers in litigation matters has recently moved his practice to Cozen O'Connor's Philadelphia shop. Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:05:38 +0000 /health/articles/2394594?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2394594 Biopharmaceutical company Halozyme Therapeutics Inc., led by Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, on Wednesday announced plans to buy fellow biopharma company Elektrofi Inc., advised by Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, for up to $900 million. Wed, 01 Oct 2025 13:31:41 +0000 /health/articles/2394272?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2394272 A Georgia appeals panel has sided with a pair of doctors and their employers in a suit by brothers alleging a failure to quickly diagnose their mother before she was paralyzed, saying the trial court did not incorrectly instruct the jury on the definition or application of gross negligence. Tue, 30 Sep 2025 23:22:51 +0000 /health/articles/2394209?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2394209 A New York bankruptcy judge trimmed an adversary suit Monday claiming McKinsey & Co. Inc. should pay at least $1.5 billion to cover costs bankrupt pharmaceutical developer Endo International racked up defending against opioid claims, tossing nearly all allegations with leave to amend, but greenlighting an indemnification claim. Tue, 30 Sep 2025 22:55:55 +0000 /health/articles/2394448?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2394448 The Trump administration finalized two separate rules on Tuesday aimed at streamlining the H-2A temporary visa process for seasonal farmworkers, one allowing employers to file petitions earlier and another capping annual wage hikes for certain high-skilled agricultural jobs. Tue, 30 Sep 2025 22:04:30 +0000 /health/articles/2394120?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2394120 A former doctor who admitted to submitting more than $4 million in false Medicare claims was sentenced to two years of probation Tuesday by an Illinois federal judge who sought to honor the ex-physician's cooperation in prosecutors' efforts to pursue other allegedly culpable defendants in different jurisdictions. Tue, 30 Sep 2025 21:59:11 +0000 /health/articles/2394302?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2394302 A Texas appeals court has vacated a $13 million verdict against a home care provider over a car-train crash that killed one of its clients and injured his wife, saying the trial court instructed the jury incorrectly and the evidence did not show that the provider's employee was acting in the course and scope of her employment. Tue, 30 Sep 2025 20:44:01 +0000 /health/articles/2393997?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2393997 A pharmacist was sentenced on Tuesday to 35 months in prison for his role in a plot to file fraudulent prescriptions for specialty drugs that were later sold for profit, costing Medicare and an insurer at least $5.6 million and earning the pharmacist and his wife more than $11 million. Tue, 30 Sep 2025 20:13:34 +0000 /health/articles/2394192?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2394192 An Illinois federal judge has ordered a host of Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurers to pay the fees and costs Walgreens incurred in an overbilling suit while helping to work through discovery production, which took two years to remediate with a special master. Tue, 30 Sep 2025 19:35:49 +0000 /health/articles/2393976?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2393976 A Nevada hospital won a jury award of more than $510 million in its lawsuit accusing Universal Health Services of raiding its staff and swiping its trade secrets during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tue, 30 Sep 2025 19:17:46 +0000 /health/articles/2393956?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2393956 The civil rights office at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is moving to cut off Harvard University from future funding, a maneuver legal experts say could stymie healthcare and biomedical research. Tue, 30 Sep 2025 18:59:00 +0000 /health/articles/2394338?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2394338 A federal judge tossed a challenge to Michigan's voter-approved constitutional right to an abortion on Tuesday because abortion opponents had not shown they were personally harmed by the amendment. Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:53:09 +0000 /health/articles/2394145?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2394145 Republican state lawmakers in Wisconsin have introduced a bill to legalize smokeless cannabis products for medical use, more than a year and a half after a similar proposal died. Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:26:51 +0000 /health/articles/2393764?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2393764 Two Chinese companies were barred from doing business in the United States and had their U.S.-based assets frozen by a Chicago federal judge until they comply with an earlier injunction order, with the judge stopping short of referring the pair and two of their executives for criminal contempt charges. Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:52:34 +0000 /health/articles/2394134?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2394134 A Chicago hospital urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up its petition for review of a Seventh Circuit ruling that had shut down its suit against the state of Illinois seeking enforcement of timely Medicaid payments, saying it's an "excellent opportunity" to address "resulting uncertainties" after a recent ruling against Planned Parenthood. Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:47:37 +0000 /health/articles/2394139?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2394139 A Connecticut federal judge has approved a home healthcare aide's $60,000 settlement in an overtime wage lawsuit after the parties removed a contentious clause that would have barred the worker from seeking future employment with the same company, court records show. Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:53:04 +0000 /health/articles/2394009?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2394009 A False Claims Act suit rocked by allegations of AI-generated hallucinations in an expert's report ended Tuesday after the federal government joined the case and quickly urged a Utah federal judge to throw it out. Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:52:02 +0000 /health/articles/2393750?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2393750 A Georgia appeals court will not vacate a $4 million verdict awarded to parents who allege their 15-month-old child died because his physician did not consider that he might have swallowed a foreign object, rejecting the doctor's argument that the plaintiffs' expert was not reliable in his opinion. Tue, 30 Sep 2025 13:29:14 +0000 /health/articles/2391599?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /health/articles/2391599 Junior law firm associates must be careful to avoid five common pitfalls when drafting legal briefs — from including every possible argument to not developing a theme — to build the reputation of a sought-after litigator, says James Argionis at Cozen O'Connor.