
Docs Navigate 'Legal Thicket' Of Pregnancy Exclusion Laws
A first-of-its-kind lawsuit in Kansas challenges a state law that plaintiffs say undermines a woman's right to make critical end-of-life decisions while pregnant and leaves doctors legally vulnerable.

A Midyear Review: Healthcare Dealmaking Trends Of 2025
Law360 Healthcare Authority reviews key trends that helped shape dealmaking activity in the healthcare industry so far this year.

FDA's Makary Breaks Open 'Black Box' On New Podcast
A new podcast hosted by FDA Commissioner Martin Makary offers an informal setting to hear from the nation’s top food and drug regulators. The industry is listening.
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The past week marked a busy period for dealmaking in the healthcare industry, with major partnerships and M&A announcements from companies like Royalty Pharma, Sanofi and Otsuka.
Generative artificial intelligence company Abridge has raised $300 million in a fresh round of capital, the company announced Tuesday.
Ophthalmic robotic surgery company ForSight Robotics on Tuesday revealed that it completed fundraising for its Series B financing round after securing $125 million from investors.
Goodwin Procter LLP has added the former general counsel of private equity firm Gurnet Point Capital to bolster its life sciences and healthcare practice groups.
Telemedicine giant Teladoc Health Inc. and two of its executives seek to shed a proposed investor class action, telling a New York federal judge the shareholder suit makes "illogical" claims that they lied abo... (more story)
The Georgia Court of Appeals on Friday said a trial court rightly found Mariner Healthcare Management Co.'s lawsuit against Sovereign Healthcare LLC over the recovery of a $12.1 million judgment was barred by ... (more story)
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Abbott Laboratories was sued Tuesday in Illinois federal court by a former worker alleging the company's onboarding materials asked for his family's medical history in violation of a state law aimed at protect... (more story)
OpenEvidence, a Massachusetts artificial intelligence company focusing on medical information, has filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing a competitor of using misappropriated personal information and sophi... (more story)
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons asked the U.S. Supreme Court Friday to review a Ninth Circuit decision the organization argued would wrongly give the government control over a patient's own stem cells.
Omni Healthcare Financial, which provides financial services to healthcare companies facing personal injury suits, has been hit with a fresh proposed class action alleging it allowed hackers access to health r... (more story)
In light of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's recently announced plans to expand use of unannounced inspections of foreign drug manufacturing factories, foreign firms should implement best practices in a... (more story)
A Canadian artificial intelligence company focusing on medical information has asked a Massachusetts federal judge to toss out a recent trade secrets lawsuit, saying the complaint is an attempt to thwart compe... (more story)
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A Pennsylvania federal judge on Wednesday ruled that CVS's pharmacy benefits manager owes the government $95 million for overbilling Medicare Part D-sponsored drugs, leaving the door open for the amount to be tripled later.
The Arkansas Insurance Department is looking to sink a challenge to a state insurance regulation filed by a Teamsters healthcare plan, telling an Illinois federal judge that the regulation isn't preempted by t... (more story)
A Connecticut federal judge won't toss an amended class action claiming a healthcare technology company misled investors about a data platform it claimed to operate that didn't actually exist, ruling that stat... (more story)
The Fourth Circuit declined to revive a transgender man's constitutional claims against a religious hospital run by the University of Maryland Medical System over a canceled hysterectomy for gender dysphoria, ... (more story)
California enforcers on Monday asked the Ninth Circuit to overturn a district court's decision that a state law restricting "reverse payment" settlements between brand-name and generic-drug makers cannot be us... (more story)
A D.C. federal judge rejected a challenge to the federal government's approval of an audit by Johnson & Johnson into five hospitals' compliance with the 340B drug discount program. In Texas, a state appellate ... (more story)