Defense Strategies, Healthcare

Making the Invisible Visible: How Diffusion Tensor Imaging Sheds Light on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Stark & Stark on 9/3/2025

Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), often called a concussion, is one of the most misunderstood injuries in medicine and law. Doctors, insurers, and defense experts frequently point to “normal” CT or MRI scans as proof that...more

PLAC MDL Task Force Comment Letter to MDL Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP on 2/14/2023

As an organization representing many target defendants in mass tort MDLs, including some of the largest MDLs on the federal docket, the Product Liability Advisory Council is uniquely positioned to serve as a voice for the...more

[Event] Forum on Managed Care Litigation – Devising Comprehensive Defense Strategies for the MCO Industry – May 16th-17th,...

American Conference Institute (ACI) on 3/11/2019

With a constantly changing political spectrum and considerable uncertainty affecting both MCOs and providers, we have developed this year’s agenda to address the latest developments impacting litigation in the managed care...more

The Clock’s Running Fast: SDNY Is First to Interpret “Identification” Under the FCA’s “60-Day Rule” for Government Overpayments

Epstein Becker & Green on 8/11/2015

On August 3, 2015, in United States ex rel. Kane v. Healthfirst, Inc., et al., No. 1:11-cv-02325 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 3, 2015), the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued the first reported...more

Lack of Typicality and Adequacy of Representation Prevents Class Certification in Health Care Data Breach

Troutman Pepper on 6/9/2015

The opinion from the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas reinforces lack of standing as a defense for companies facing data breach–related class actions. On March 25, the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas provided...more

The Double-Edged Sword: Genomic Profiling in Drug and Chemical Litigation

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 5/12/2015

Since completion of the Human Genome Project, genomic profiling and the related advent of personalized medicine have become a hot topic. Many predicted this new genomic information would lead to targeted drug treatments that...more