
Healthcare Deals That Shaped 2025: Midyear Highlights
As 2025 hits its midyear point, Law360 Healthcare Authority asked attorneys for their top choices for influential deals that have helped shape the healthcare industry so far this year.

RFK Jr. Walks Back Wearables Message Amid Data Concerns
Amid pushback about mass data collection and privacy risks, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. is softening his recent message that every American should have a "wearable" health device.

High Court Ruling Puts Limits On Medicaid Enforcement
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling that bars a Medicaid beneficiary from suing over her right to choose a medical provider could make more states comfortable following South Carolina’s lead and cutting off Medicaid funding for disfavored providers.
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A Delaware federal judge Tuesday tossed Acuitas Therapeutics' lawsuit seeking to have its scientists added as inventors on seven Alnylam Pharmaceuticals patents tied to mRNA technology, saying the complaint do... (more story)
The full Federal Circuit on Tuesday shot down Mylan's request for the court to reconsider a March ruling that the company's planned generic version of schizophrenia drug Invega Trinza would cause physicians to... (more story)
The Federal Circuit ruled Monday that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board wrongly invalidated all the claims of a patent that Bausch & Lomb licenses for its Lumify eye drops, saying the board used an incorrect c... (more story)
Biopharmaceutical company Sarepta Therapeutics Inc. is facing a proposed investor class action after the deaths of two patients being treated with one of its therapies prompted regulatory scrutiny, with invest... (more story)
Amid current market challenges, boards and management teams of biotech companies can consider several strategies for maximizing value should a spinoff opportunity arise, but not without significant advance pla... (more story)
Biotech company CytoDyn and its former executives and directors cannot escape a suit accusing them of misleading shareholders about the likelihood that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would approve its d... (more story)
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A California-led coalition of nearly two dozen state attorneys general is pushing a federal court to stop the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from giving immigration officials "unfettered access" ... (more story)
A New York federal jury has concluded that the TriZetto Group, a healthcare software company, is entitled to nearly $70 million in compensatory damages due to Syntel Inc.'s copyright infringement and trade sec... (more story)
Thousands of rural healthcare clinics that rely on federal subsidies to provide telehealth services to millions of patients secured a major win when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the funding for a key Fede... (more story)
A New York federal judge refused to toss a proposed class action accusing Teladoc of unlawfully disclosing website visitors' personal health information to Meta, preserving eight wiretapping and consumer prote... (more story)
The acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director rejected 21 petitions for Patent Trial and Appeal Board reviews on Wednesday, and the board's acting deputy chief judge denied another 12 where the acting d... (more story)
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)
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A healthcare fraud operation announced by the Justice Department targeting $14.6 billion in potential false claims wasn't the only enforcement action making waves in the industry this past week.
It may be mid-summer, but Texas lawmakers are sending doctors and lawyers back to school for a course on what constitutes a "medical emergency" for the purpose of a legal abortion. Law360 Healthcare Authority ... (more story)
A federal judge in Des Moines has temporarily blocked an Iowa law regulating pharmacy benefit managers, delivering a significant victory to a coalition of local businesses that argued the statute overstepped f... (more story)
An Illinois federal judge narrowed a proposed federal benefits class action against an automotive lighting company from an ex-worker, but allowed allegations to proceed to discovery alleging the company misspe... (more story)
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling over whether personal injury claims can be brought under a RICO statute and a $7.4 billion settlement reached with the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma are among Law360's top person... (more story)
A career Arnold & Porter LLP attorney who spent more than 20 years with his former firm representing clients in False Claims Act litigation and other forms of commercial litigation has joined Dentons' Washingt... (more story)