Expert Analysis

Data Reveals Pivot In Feds' Financial Fraud Priorities

Recent Justice Department data shows fraud prosecutions fell to their lowest rate in a decade in 2025, illustratin... (more story)

New Timeline For Benefits Cases May Increase FCA Litigation

Recent reforms designed to speed enforcers’ intervention decisions in False Claims Act suits involving state-admin... (more story)

Steps For Employers After 7th Circ. BIPA Retroactivity Ruling

The Seventh Circuit's recent ruling in Clay v. Union Pacific sharply limits per-scan statutory damages theories in... (more story)

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4th Circ. Says Supply Co.'s Foreign Member Kills Diversity

The Fourth Circuit on Thursday declined to reinstate a medical supply company's contract dispute against a U.K. corporation over COVID-19 test kits, after finding that the lack of a U.S. citizen on the supply ... (more story)

11th Circ. Urged To Toss Convictions In $1.4B Hospital Fraud

Two brothers convicted in a $1.4 billion scheme to bill insurers inflated rates for drug tests told the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday that there was insufficient evidence to support their convictions and that ... (more story)

A Midyear Look At Antiterrorism Act Jurisprudence And Policy

Plaintiffs have filed comparably fewer new actions under the Antiterrorism Act this year, though a handful of key decisions further defined the statute’s aiding-and-abetting standard and highlighted continuing... (more story)

Cassava Investors Ink $31M Drug Suit Deal Alongside Appeal

Cassava Sciences investors have asked a Texas federal judge to preliminarily approve a $31 million settlement that ends their claims the pharmaceutical company inflated its stock prices with misleading informa... (more story)

FTC Requires Fix For Aurobindo's $250M Lannett Deal

The Federal Trade Commission is allowing Aurobindo Pharma Ltd. to move ahead with its planned $250 million acquisition of Lannett Co. Inc., after the pharmaceutical company agreed to unload four generic drug p... (more story)

Sorrento RICO Case Naming Jackson Walker Gets Axed

A Texas bankruptcy judge blocked a lawsuit in California federal court alleging Jackson Walker LLP and executives at Sorrento Therapeutics and M3 Partners conspired to forum shop in Texas so the drug developer... (more story)

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Meta Fails To Knock Out BIPA Voiceprint Privacy Claims

A California federal judge has refused to let Meta Platforms Inc. escape an Illinois woman's proposed class claims that Meta collects "voiceprints" in violation of Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act, ... (more story)

Planned Parenthood Sent Patient Data To Google, Suit Says

Planned Parenthood and regional affiliates were hit with a proposed class action alleging they use hidden tracking tools on their website and patient portals to transmit sensitive sexual and reproductive healt... (more story)

Stryker Says Data Breach Suit Built On Speculation

Michigan-based medical technology company Stryker Corp. has asked a federal judge to toss a proposed class action over a March cyberattack, arguing the former and current employees suing the company cannot sho... (more story)

Wellstar Reaches Deal In Patient Data-Sharing Suit

Georgia's largest healthcare system has reached a settlement with a group of anonymous patients who alleged that the confidential health information of "millions" was shared with Meta Platform Inc. without con... (more story)

Eli Lilly Weight Drug TM Deal Too Secretive, Ind. Judge Says

An Indiana federal judge on Thursday refused to sign off on a confidential settlement that would bar a telehealth company from selling knock-offs of Eli Lilly's weight-loss medications, saying the companies di... (more story)

Express Scripts Can't Ditch Meta Wiretap Suit Yet

A California federal judge refused to dismiss a proposed class action alleging Express Scripts lets Meta secretly read consumers' communications, saying a consumer sufficiently claimed the online pharmacy allo... (more story)

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Sandoz Still Can't Escape Generics Claims From GM, Others

A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday declined to rethink her decision forcing Sandoz's Swiss parent company to face generic-drug price-fixing claims from major employers like American Airlines Inc. and Gen... (more story)

Texas Faces Tough Questions In Tylenol Autism Appeal

A Texas appellate court seemed skeptical Thursday of an argument that the parent entities of the company that sells Tylenol should have to defend claims that the pain reliever causes autism, suggesting that th... (more story)

Netflix Urges Justices Not To Disturb 9th Circ. ERISA Docs Ruling

Netflix urged the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday not to take up a petition from an employee health plan participant who alleged the company failed to provide him access to plan documents in violation of federal b... (more story)

Wash. Therapist Seeks Bar On 'Conversion Therapy' Ban

A Washington therapist has urged a federal court to bar the state from enforcing its ban on what is commonly known as conversion therapy, arguing that a U.S. Supreme Court decision this year has "vindicated" h... (more story)

Novo Nordisk Gets 401(k) Investment Suit Narrowed

A New Jersey federal judge dismissed allegations accusing Novo Nordisk of unlawfully keeping underperforming investment options in its employee 401(k) plan, handing the pharmaceutical company a partial win by ... (more story)

NY Judge Halts DOJ Bid For Trans Youth Medical Records

A New York federal judge Wednesday barred the U.S. Department of Justice from seeking medical records of transgender patients who received gender-affirming care as minors in the wake of a grand jury subpoena t... (more story)