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By Tom McParland | February 20, 2018
A Delaware federal judge on Feb. 16 overturned a massive $2.5 billion jury verdict against Gilead Sciences Inc., finding that a patent held by a unit of Merck & Co. Inc. was too broad to be valid.
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By Celia Ampel | February 20, 2018
The lawsuit filed in Miami-Dade Circuit Court aims to hold opioid manufacturers, distributors and marketers liable for health care costs related to painkiller addiction.
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By Kristen Rasmussen | February 20, 2018
ALM talked with Peter Swire, senior counsel at Alston & Bird and privacy and cybersecurity expert at the Georgia Institute of Technology's Scheller College of Business, about some of the legal and data privacy issues surrounding the new, data-driven health care delivery systems. These include the proposed merger between CVS Health and Aetna Inc., as well as the health initiative that Amazon.com, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. recently announced for its employees.
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By Josefa Velasquez | February 15, 2018
A New York financial regulator is investigating reports that some life and disability insurers are denying coverage to applicants who used medication meant to reduce the risk of HIV infection.
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By Kristen Rasmussen | February 14, 2018
Insurance commissioners in California and Colorado recently announced plans to scrutinize Aetna's practices for granting and denying health care claims—developments that in and of themselves are unlikely to be deal breakers in the insurance giant's proposed $69 billion merger with CVS Health, corporate lawyers say.
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By Cliff Katz, Bill Escobar, Neil Merkl and Sumi Naidoo | February 14, 2018
States and municipalities have brought over 200 lawsuits against opioid distributors and manufacturers in the United States, in response to the Opioid Epidemic. Using civil suits to solve this public health problem is not a proper function of the justice system. Opportunistic litigation diverts attention from the need for properly targeted public policy solutions.
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By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | February 13, 2018
C. Michael Moore specializes in pharmaceutical work and also handles unfair trade practices, state attorney general matters, governmental fraud. Matthew Nickel focuses on product liability and pharmaceutical litigation.
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By Terence N. Hawley and Joshua D. Anderson | February 13, 2018
Class action plaintiffs often submit expert testimony in support of class certification motions, raising the question of how defendants should respond—particularly when the plaintiff's evidence is unreliable or otherwise deficient.
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By Jenna Greene | February 11, 2018
"In order to do a good job at trial, you can't just parachute in and know half the facts. You have to know everything," says Kirkland & Ellis star litigator James Hurst. "The reality is, that takes time—late nights, early mornings, lots of weekends. But it's the only way to make it work."
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By Charles Toutant | February 9, 2018
The company artificially inflated its stock price by failing to disclose what it knew about links between cancer and Johnson's Baby Powder, according to the suit.
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