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  • August 23, 2024

    Matthew Perry Death Suit Could Blow Past Calif. Damage Cap

    The federal indictment recently unsealed accusing two doctors and others of peddling the ketamine that caused Matthew Perry's death will serve as prime fodder for any wrongful death suit by the actor's estate, experts say, and California's medical malpractice damages cap may not even be a factor.

  • August 22, 2024

    Philly Hospital Fights $45M Verdict For Teen Gunshot Patient

    Temple University Hospital Inc. wants to undo a $45 million jury verdict, arguing in a posttrial brief that the jury made contradictory findings — that the hospital was responsible for a plaintiff's injuries, and that he'd been eating pieces of chicken against medical advice.

  • August 22, 2024

    2nd Circ. Says Feds Can't Forcibly Drug Man Facing Removal

    The Second Circuit ruled Thursday that the Bureau of Prisons can't yet forcibly administer antipsychotic medication to render a Sierra Leone native competent to stand trial on charges of assaulting officers at a prison where he was being detained pending deportation.

  • August 21, 2024

    2nd Circ. Partly Revives Life Insurance Suit Against AXA

    The Second Circuit on Wednesday affirmed the dismissal of an investment firm founder's claims alleging AXA Equitable Life Insurance Co. caused the founder to miss a payment that led to the termination of his life insurance policies, but revived his claim that AXA wrongly denied his request to reinstate the policies.

  • August 21, 2024

    Spine Implant Caused Patient's TB, Suit Says

    A North Carolina couple on Tuesday hit biologic technology company Elutia Inc. with a complaint in federal court alleging that the husband contracted tuberculosis from a bone cell product that was implanted into his spine during surgery.

  • August 21, 2024

    Hillrom Says Funding Docs 'Plainly' Relevant In Antitrust Suit

    Hospital-bed maker Hill-Rom Holdings, doing business as Hillrom, defended its request for litigation funding documents in rival Linet's suit targeting allegedly anticompetitive supply agreements, arguing they will help support its defenses and combat a "David and Goliath" characterization of the case.

  • August 21, 2024

    Judge Rules Lack Of Expert Dooms Families' Tylenol MDL

    Families trying to show that prenatal exposure to acetaminophen causes ADHD cannot rely on the "cherry-picked statements" of a defense expert to keep their claims alive, a New York federal judge ruled, delivering yet another blow to plaintiffs in the sprawling multidistrict litigation.

  • August 19, 2024

    4th Circ. Cuts Liberty Loose In Medicare Reimbursement Row

    A North Carolina widow can't revive a proposed class action accusing Liberty Mutual of failing to reimburse Medicare for her deceased husband's medical costs, the Fourth Circuit said Monday, finding she wasn't injured and therefore lacked standing to sue.

  • August 16, 2024

    Ex-CEO Wants Verdict In COVID Test Kit Fraud Case Tossed

    A former healthcare software executive found guilty of securities fraud for publicly touting a $670 million COVID test kit deal that ultimately collapsed wants his conviction thrown out, telling a New Jersey federal judge the government failed to establish every element of the crime.

  • August 16, 2024

    Ortho Center Seeks Lit Funding Details After Scuttled Verdict

    A Minnesota-based orthopedic center wants a former patient to disclose information regarding his litigation financing agreement with Bench Walk Advisors following a $110 million malpractice verdict, which a judge later decided was "astronomical" and largely scrapped.

  • August 15, 2024

    NIH Accused Of Wrongly Eliminating Cos. From $50B IT Deal

    Two companies have disputed their exclusion from the National Institutes of Health's pending $50 billion CIO-SP4 information technology procurement, saying they were qualified for the contract and the NIH hasn't explained its decisions.

  • August 15, 2024

    Matthew Perry's Assistant And 2 Drs. Charged In Actor's Death

    The former personal assistant for actor Matthew Perry and two doctors have been criminally charged in connection with the "Friends" star's death last year from an overdose of ketamine, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday in California federal court.

  • August 15, 2024

    Pharmacy Can't Dodge Novo Nordisk's Diabetes Drug Suit

    A Tennessee federal judge on Thursday declined to throw out a suit by Novo Nordisk Inc. alleging that DCA Pharmacy is selling drugs with the same active ingredient as its Ozempic diabetes medicine without U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorization.

  • August 15, 2024

    Calif. Justices Find Hospital System Exempt From Labor Code

    A hospital system a California county created is a public entity that is not required to follow the California Labor Code's meal and rest break requirements, the state's high court ruled Thursday, nixing an appellate panel's ruling against the entity.

  • August 15, 2024

    NC Small Biz Challenges VA Bid Process For Prostate Drug

    A service-disabled veteran-owned small business in North Carolina is challenging the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' bid process for prostate medication, saying the terms unfairly favor foreign manufacturers despite purporting to prioritize American-made products.

  • August 14, 2024

    ICE Faces Trimmed Suit Over Detainee's COVID-19 Death

    A California federal court on Tuesday again allowed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to trim a lawsuit alleging it failed to protect a man who died in detention but kept claims alleging ICE failed to oversee its facilities or protect the man from COVID-19.

  • August 14, 2024

    Doctor Loses Challenge To Nursing Home's Vax Policy

    A New Jersey federal judge on Wednesday tossed a CareOne doctor's challenge to the nursing home operator's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, saying she did not pass the Third Circuit's test for an exemption for failing to exhaust her administrative remedies.

  • August 14, 2024

    GSA Hit With Protest Over $985M Migrant Kid Transport Deal

    Trailboss Enterprises Inc. is protesting the General Services Administration's decision to award a $985.4 million transportation and logistics contract for unaccompanied children in federal custody to a competitor, saying it lost the contract because of a flawed selection process.

  • August 14, 2024

    Nursing Co. Exec Can't Split Up Fraud, Wage-Fixing Charges

    A Nevada federal magistrate judge has struck two blows against a home healthcare staffing executive facing criminal charges of fixing nurses' wages and hiding that probe when selling the business for $12.5 million, as the judge refused to break up the allegations and recommended against dismissing the fraud counts.

  • August 14, 2024

    K&L Gates Hires 340B Health Counsel In DC

    K&L Gates LLP's newest healthcare counsel, Amanda Smith, has never worked at a private practice law firm until now.

  • August 13, 2024

    Judge Urged To Toss Novel Insider Trading Conviction

    Former Ontrak CEO Terren Peizer has moved to rid himself of a first-of-its-kind insider trading conviction, arguing that the government's case "watered down" the standard it had to prove by failing to demonstrate that he believed Ontrak was about to lose its biggest customer at the time he shed $20 million in stock.

  • August 13, 2024

    Entresto Release Delayed As Novartis Goes To Fed. Circ.

    A Delaware federal judge said Monday that Novartis is unlikely to prove that it's entitled to an injunction that would block MSN Pharmaceuticals from launching a generic version of its top-selling drug Entresto, but stayed the generic release briefly so Novartis could appeal to the Federal Circuit.

  • August 13, 2024

    Ga. Justices To Weigh Arbitrator's Closed-Door Discussions

    The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to weigh if an arbitrator's ex parte communications with BioTek Services LLC in an allergy testing payment dispute warranted vacating BioTek's $1.7 million arbitration award over compensation for its testing of patients from Docs of CT LLC.

  • August 12, 2024

    GAO Says VA Deal Awardee Wasn't Missing Key Staff Member

    The U.S. Government Accountability Office has rejected Booz Allen Hamilton's protest over a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs agreement for healthcare market assessments, saying there was no evidence that a key worker for the awardee wasn't available to work on the deal.

  • August 12, 2024

    Atrium, NC Textile Family Settle Fight Over $17M Inheritance

    Half of a $17 million trust from a prominent North Carolina textile family will go to a new beneficiary as part of a settlement in which the family and Atrium Health agreed to change the terms of the matriarch's will after months of "differing contentions" about the rightful recipient.

Expert Analysis

  • Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: May Lessons

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    In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses four notable circuit court decisions on topics from automobile insurance to securities — and provides key takeaways for counsel on issues including circuit-specific ascertainability requirements and how to conduct a Daubert analysis prior to class certification.

  • Trauma-Informed Legal Approaches For Pro Bono Attorneys

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    As National Trauma Awareness Month ends, pro bono attorneys should nevertheless continue to acknowledge the mental and physical effects of trauma, allowing them to better represent clients, and protect themselves from compassion fatigue and burnout, say Katherine Cronin at Stinson and Katharine Manning at Blackbird.

  • How Attys Can Avoid Pitfalls When Withdrawing From A Case

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    The Trump campaign's recent scuffle over its bid to replace its counsel in a pregnancy retaliation suit offers a chance to remind attorneys that many troubles inherent in withdrawing from a case can be mitigated or entirely avoided by communicating with clients openly and frequently, says Christopher Konneker at Orsinger Nelson.

  • Using A Children's Book Approach In Firm Marketing Content

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    From “The Giving Tree” to “Where the Wild Things Are,” most children’s books are easy to remember because they use simple words and numbers to tell stories with a human impact — a formula law firms should emulate in their marketing content to stay front of mind for potential clients, says Seema Desai Maglio at The Found Word.

  • Being An EMT Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    While some of my experiences as an emergency medical technician have been unusually painful and searing, the skills I’ve learned — such as triage, empathy and preparedness — are just as useful in my work as a restructuring lawyer, says Marshall Huebner at Davis Polk.

  • Lessons On Challenging Class Plaintiffs' Expert Testimony

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    In class actions seeking damages, plaintiffs are increasingly using expert opinions to establish predominance, but several recent rulings from California federal courts shed light on how defendants can respond, say Jennifer Romano and Raija Horstman at Crowell & Moring.

  • Exploring An Alternative Model Of Litigation Finance

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    A new model of litigation finance, most aptly described as insurance-backed litigation funding, differs from traditional funding in two key ways, and the process of securing it involves three primary steps, say Bob Koneck, Christopher Le Neve Foster and Richard Butters at Atlantic Global Risk LLC.

  • Cell Therapy Cos. Must Beware Limits Of Patent Safe Harbors

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    Though developers of gene and cell therapy products commonly assume that a legal safe harbor protects them from patent infringement suits, recent case law shows that not all preapproval uses of patented technology are necessarily protected, say Natasha Daughtrey and Joshua Weinger at Goodwin.

  • E-Discovery Quarterly: Recent Rulings On Text Message Data

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    Electronically stored information on cellphones, and in particular text messages, can present unique litigation challenges, and recent court decisions demonstrate that counsel must carefully balance what data should be preserved, collected, reviewed and produced, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • Tylenol MDL Highlights Expert Admissibility Headaches

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    A New York federal court's decision to exclude all plaintiff experts in a multidistrict litigation concerning prenatal exposure to Tylenol highlights a number of expert testimony pitfalls that parties should avoid in product liability and mass tort matters, say Rand Brothers and Courtney Block at Winston & Strawn.

  • Don't Use The Same Template For Every Client Alert

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    As the old marketing adage goes, consistency is key, but law firm style guides need consistency that contemplates variety when it comes to client alert formats, allowing attorneys to tailor alerts to best fit the audience and subject matter, says Jessica Kaplan at Legally Penned.

  • Think Like A Lawyer: Follow The Iron Rule Of Trial Logic

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    Many diligent and eager attorneys include every good fact, point and rule in their trial narratives — spurred by the gnawing fear they’ll be second-guessed for leaving something out — but this approach ignores a fundamental principle of successful trial lawyering, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.

  • The Art Of Asking: Leveraging Your Contacts For Referrals

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    Though attorneys may hesitate to ask for referral recommendations to generate new business, research shows that people want to help others they know, like and trust, so consider who in your network you should approach and how to make the ask, says Rebecca Hnatowski at Edwards Advisory.

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