/healthcare-authority/other?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Healthcare Authority Other Copyright 2025 saąúĽĘ´«Ă˝. en-US Tue, 23 Dec 2025 19:56:49 +0000 /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2425317?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2425317 Amarin Pharma Inc. on Tuesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject the U.S. solicitor general's call to hear a patent case involving generic drug "skinny labels," saying the dispute over the company's heart drug Vascepa deals with factual issues not suitable for high court review. Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:17:00 +0000 /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2425282?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2425282 The Seventh Circuit reinstated a pay bias suit Tuesday from two medical waste sales representatives who claimed their male colleagues unfairly received higher base salaries, finding they cast doubt on the company's sex-neutral justifications for the disparity. Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:07:49 +0000 /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2424679?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2424679 The Sixth Circuit vacated a nearly $7 million restitution order against a pharmaceutical salesman convicted of healthcare fraud, finding an Ohio federal court erred in calculating that amount and apportioning liability. Fri, 19 Dec 2025 22:07:57 +0000 /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2423711?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2423711 Federal prosecutors are urging the Fourth Circuit not to give "a do-over" to a medical malpractice attorney who was convicted of attempting to extort the University of Maryland Medical System out of $25 million and who says his self-representation at trial was not competent. Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:41:15 +0000 /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2424263?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2424263 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has denied 21 requests for America Invents Act patent reviews, while not agreeing to institute any new proceedings. Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:09:51 +0000 /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2422026?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2422026 As more organizations eliminate their in-house legal departments in favor of outsourcing legal work, fractional general counsel roles offer practitioners an engaging and flexible way to practice at a high level, but they can also present legal, ethical and operational risks that must be proactively managed, say attorneys at Boies Schiller. Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:06:45 +0000 /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2423959?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2423959 An Arkansas federal judge agreed to cut the constructive discharge allegation from a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit alleging two doctors at an Arkansas hospital refused to let a male medical assistant help with childbirth, noting that the worker assisted with other deliveries. Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:54:34 +0000 /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2423757?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2423757 A Connecticut man who admitted to conspiring to rip off Medicare, the military health program Tricare and private insurers has been ordered to serve 2½ years in federal prison and to immediately pay nearly $7.9 million in restitution. Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:09:28 +0000 /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2423844?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2423844 A Seattle jury awarded $8.1 million on Thursday over an Adobe manager's fall from an operating table, after hearing the plaintiff's experts testify that his life was irrevocably altered by permanent brain damage. Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:15:51 +0000 /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2423869?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2423869 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 Pennsylvania federal court Thursday. Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:12:48 +0000 /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2423590?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2423590 Gilead Sciences Inc. announced Thursday that it had promoted of an in-house attorney who has worked for the biopharmaceutical company for 14 years to serve as its general counsel to steer its legal and compliance functions. Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:54:19 +0000 /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2422296?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2422296 Eating disorder specialists have one more chance for fraud and antitrust class claims against a professional association they accuse of forcing membership to obtain important certification, after an Illinois federal judge said they have not sufficiently claimed harm from the fraud and have not shown market power behind the alleged coercion. Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:39:57 +0000 /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2417776?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2417776 Issue-spotting skills are well honed in law school, but practicing attorneys must also identify clients’ problems and true goals, and then be able to provide solutions, says Mary Kate Hogan at Quarles & Brady. Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:47:19 +0000 /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2422894?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2422894 A lawyer for an Adobe software engineer told a Washington state jury in closing arguments Tuesday that he and his wife are owed up to $52 million from a medical provider, after the man's head slammed onto the floor of an operating room during surgery and causing allegedly permanent brain injuries. Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:35:42 +0000 /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2422312?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2422312 A Virginia federal judge has allowed health insurer CareFirst's anticompetition and patent fraud claims against Johnson & Johnson to move forward in a case alleging anticompetitive behavior in relation to the immunosuppressive drug Stelara, while letting the pharmaceutical giant escape some claims of misrepresentation. Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:45:01 +0000 /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2421012?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2421012 To address the patchwork of courts’ standing orders on generative artificial intelligence, curbing abuses and relieving the burden on judges, the federal judiciary should consider amending its civil procedure rules to require litigants to certify they’ve reviewed legal filings for accuracy, say attorneys at Shook Hardy. Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:10:40 +0000 /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2421398?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2421398 Prosecutors told a Pennsylvania federal judge Monday that they did not breach a plea deal between the government and Cedric Lodge by seeking a harsh sentence for the former head of Harvard University's morgue who admitted to theft and trafficking of human remains, claiming that Lodge's arguments to the contrary amounted to buyer's remorse. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:21:26 +0000 /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2421160?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2421160 Washington Insurance Commissioner Patty Kuderer has announced a $350,000 fine against a Texas-based insurer and other businesses over "healthcare sharing ministry" memberships that her office claimed violated state law by excluding coverage of preexisting conditions and services such as abortion. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:19:20 +0000 /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2421467?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2421467 A Texas bankruptcy judge approved Prospect Medical Holdings Inc.'s Chapter 11 plan after overruling a slew of objections during an all-day hearing Friday and allowing the healthcare group to hand off its remaining hospitals and pursue litigation to repay creditors. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:26:48 +0000 /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2418279?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /healthcare-authority/other/articles/2418279 While proposals for limiting the terms of U.S. Supreme Court justices are popular, a steady stream of relatively young, highly marketable ex-justices with unique knowledge and influence entering the marketplace of law and politics could create new problems, say Michael Broyde at Emory University and Hayden Hall at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.