Each week, InsideCounsel.com brings you updates on the top legal news stories affecting in-house counsel. Highlights from the week of Feb. 28 – March 4 include: Obama embraces earlier state flexibility on health care reform, which reports on the president's address to state governors signaling that he is willing to allow states more flexibility in adhering to health care requirements; EU court bans insurers from pricing on gender, which examines a ruling by the European Court of Justice that pricing by gender constitutes discrimination; and Senate votes to strip down patent reform bill, which describes a the Senate's vote to remove several controversial provisions from a bipartisan bill to reform the patent system.