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Civil Antitrust Litigation is Surging: The Numbers Every Litigator Needs to Know

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Record case filings, multi-billion-dollar settlements, and rising discovery demands are reshaping the antitrust litigation landscape. This snapshot highlights the volumes, industries, and jurisdictions driving today’s...more

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Insuring Global Clinical Trials: Navigating Risks Across Borders

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In part three of our three-part webinar series on Risk Management for Your Life Sciences Company, we focus on insurance for foreign clinical trials and provide updates on the clinical trial requirements of various countries....more

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AI Today in 5: August 11, 2025, The ACHILLES Project Episode

Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 stories about AI to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to the AI Today In...more

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Cargo Stock Throughput Insurance for Life Science Companies

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In the dynamic world of life sciences, companies face unique challenges in safeguarding their valuable assets. From pharmaceuticals to biologics, medical devices to vaccines, these products often require specialized handling...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

April 2025 Insurance Update

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As temperatures in the Northeast have made it feel more like winter than spring, it’s only fitting that we begin our April Insurance Update with a case from Alaska. There, the Alaska Supreme Court decides for the first time...more

Wiley Rein LLP

[Podcast] Pharmacy Benefit Segmentation: Emerging Models for Health Plans

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In this episode of The Wiley Contracting Chronicles, hosts Jordan Ross and Brooke DeLoatch discuss the growing trend of pharmacy benefit segmentation among health plans. They outline three emerging models identified at Wiley:...more

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Better Health Care Newsletter - March 2025

The giant firms  that track trends for big businesses have glum news for all of us: Health care costs are spiking anew this year. The rise, one consultancy predicts, will be the highest in 13 years....more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Gold Dome Report - Legislative Day 25 - February 2025

Amidst the usual suits and blazers, white dresses and tuxedos have been appearing with increasing frequency around the Georgia State Capitol this spring. Apparently word is out amongst the city’s photographers that the...more

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Massachusetts Enacts Drug Pricing Legislation: Introducing PBM Licensure, Mandatory Cost Reporting, and Consumer Cost-Sharing...

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On January 8, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healy signed into law “An Act Relative To Pharmaceutical Access, Costs And Transparency.” The Act will have a profound impact on all parties involved in setting and applying drug...more

DLA Piper

Keeping Watch on Medicare: Access Prescription Drug Plans and Premiums

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The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) significantly changed the popular Medicare drug programs. While an IRA policy goal is to reduce the out-of-pocket drug spending, beneficiaries may experience higher drug plan premiums and...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The Legal and Economic Realities of Medicare Drug Pricing: Navigating Opportunities and Challenges

The rising cost of prescription drugs under Medicare continues to pose significant challenges for seniors, a population that relies heavily on consistent and affordable access to medications. This issue underscores broader...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Trending in Telehealth: November 26 – December 10, 2024

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Trending in Telehealth highlights state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists, and technology companies that deliver and facilitate...more

Knobbe Martens

Settlements Don’t Close the Door: Antitrust Claims Follow IPR Challenges in Life Sciences

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In the ongoing case of Carefirst of Maryland Inc. v. Johnson & Johnson, the plaintiffs successfully overcame a motion to dismiss. At the heart of the case is J&J’s legal strategy against biosimilar competitors, including...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

The Health Record - Healthcare Law Insights, Issue 3, July 2024

Welcome to our third issue of The Health Record - our healthcare law insights e-newsletter! We are winding down the summer with our talented group of law students and they have continued to research and write, shadow...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

This Week in 340B: May 21 – May 27, 2024

Find this week’s updates on 340B litigation to help you stay in the know on how 340B cases are developing across the country. Each week we comb through the dockets of more than 50 340B cases to provide you with a quick...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

This Week in 340B: April 9 – April 15, 2024

Find this week’s updates on 340B litigation to help you stay in the know on how 340B cases are developing across the country. Each week we comb through the dockets of more than 50 340B cases to provide you with a quick...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Neither Contract Exclusion nor Professional Services Exclusion Bar Coverage for Lawsuits Against Insured Alleging Breach of Common...

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The United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, applying North Carolina law, ruled that neither a contract exclusion nor a professional services exclusion contained in a D&O policy barred coverage...more

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Better Health Care Newsletter - August 2023

A Social Media prescription from America’s top doctor - Imagine sending your teen-aged kid or grandkid out every day to a full-time job in the tech industry. The hours are flexible, and they say they like it...sort of....more

Wiley Rein LLP

Seventh Circuit Holds Settlement Arising From Alleged False Claim Act Violations Does Not Necessarily Constitute Uninsurable...

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, applying Illinois law, has held that a $100 million settlement between the United States government and a pharmaceutical company for claims arising under the False...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

OIG Approves Free Drug Program for Ultra-Rare Condition in Advisory Opinion 23-02

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On February 23, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued Advisory Opinion 23-02, approving a pharmaceutical company’s program to provide a free 14-day supply of an...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Legislative Efforts to Remove Impediments to Biosimilar Approvals and Marketing

Biosimilars are becoming increasingly important in healthcare as they offer a lower-cost alternative to biologic drugs, which can be expensive for patients, governments, and insurers. These biologic medicines, which are...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

The Current State of 340B and What to Expect in 2023

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2022 was an eventful year on the 340B front, packed with updates to consequential litigation, proposed new rules, ongoing uncertainty into the Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) underlying enforcement...more

Verrill

A Last-Minute Gift – Prescription Drug Reporting Grace Period and Good Faith Relief

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In a move akin to last-minute gift-giving, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury (the “Departments”) released FAQ 56 on December 23, 2022, which provides relief regarding the Prescription Drug...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Updates in Co-Pay Assistance and Accumulators Litigation

Key Points - A new legal challenge to OIG on Medicare Beneficiaries’ ability to receive co-pay assistance has emerged. The Supreme Court has been asked to review HHS’s prohibition of co-pay assistance programs under the...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Insurance Update - September 21 2022

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Some important insurance decisions were handed down over the past month. We begin in Ohio, where public nuisance claims by state and local governments over opioids and lead paint were on full display. In Acuity, the...more

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