A medical supply procurement company on Friday sought to hasten the assignment of a new judge to its contract suit against a pharmaceutical middleman after the previous judge retired, acknowledging there are s... (more story)

A New York federal judge has declined to dismiss a majority of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's claims against former executives of a now-defunct online pharmacy called Medly, finding the agency a... (more story)

Personalized healthcare solutions company Accolade Inc. was hit with an investor suit Thursday accusing it and its CEO of making false statements about its profitability to prop up share prices before announci... (more story)

The Eleventh Circuit declined to revive a former Quest Diagnostics Inc. compliance officer's False Claims Act suit against the lab testing company, ruling she had failed to allege a specific claim of medical b... (more story)

Medicine supplier McKesson Corp. disputed that it has to assign its antitrust claims against drug manufacturers to the bankruptcy trust from the first Chapter 11 case of Rite Aid Corp., which has argued that t... (more story)

The Eighth Circuit partially reversed a ruling Wednesday that denied pharmacy benefits manager OptumRx's bid to send a drugstore's proposed class action over generics prescription reimbursements to arbitration... (more story)

Stanford University was let out of all but one claim brought by subsidiaries of F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG over alleged trade secret theft, but a California federal judge allowed most claims to move forward again... (more story)

Google and users of the menstrual cycle tracking app Flo have reached a deal to resolve claims that the tech giant used a data analytics tool to unlawfully retrieve their sensitive health data, releasing the c... (more story)

The city of Chicago defeated allegations that the genetic information of two employees was taken when their spouses took part in a wellness program, with an Illinois federal judge finding that evidence does no... (more story)

By giving the passage of time a dispositive role in denying institution of five inter partes review petitions filed by iRhythm Technologies, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has upended the strategic consi... (more story)

The Trump administration's embrace of artificial intelligence and data analytics to pursue healthcare fraudsters is raising new concerns about the reliability and transparency of these tools.

The number of law firms juggling three or more arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court this past term nearly doubled from the number of firms that could make that claim last term.

A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday pressed the government for any plausible rationale, besides retaliation, for a provision in Congress' budget reconciliation that will prevent Planned Parenthood and its ... (more story)

A partner with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP told a Nevada federal court he should not be sanctioned for using a poor choice of words when communicating with the government about the availability of an e... (more story)

A 21-state coalition led by the attorneys general of California, Massachusetts and New Jersey sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Thursda... (more story)

A bill floated in the U.S. Senate would limit the use of so-called patent thickets that are asserted by major pharmaceutical companies in litigation to restrict generic competition.

A Puerto Rico federal judge threw out an antitrust lawsuit accusing insurer Triple-S Salud and two urology firms of colluding to exclude rival practices from the commonwealth's government-run healthcare progra... (more story)

A day before his trial was set to begin, the former CEO and owner of the now-defunct laboratory Premier Medical Inc. agreed to a $27.5 million consent judgment, acknowledging he was likely to be found liable i... (more story)