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New York Law Journal

How Health Insurance Companies Used Legal Finance to Manage Risk: A Case Study

Case studies are rare in legal finance due to the confidential nature of transactions, but they are particularly helpful to in-house lawyers as they consider how legal finance could benefit their businesses. Burford's financing of several health insurers in the risk corridors litigation is a rare public example.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Overlooked Law States Can Use to Get Private Equity Out of Health Care Decisions

Private equity firms have invested almost $1 trillion in hospitals and specialized practices over the last decade and there is no end to this surge in sight. The consequences of this seismic shift upon patient care and costs to the government payers are increasingly drawing scrutiny from industry observers.
8 minute read

The American Lawyer

Barnes & Thornburg Opens in Nashville, Looking to 'Grow Aggressively'

The new arrivals come from Bass, Berry & Sims, Holland & Knight and Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Pharma Company Retains Gibson Dunn in $300 Million Payment Battle Over Cholesterol Drug

Jones Day is counsel for a European-based company in the lawsuit over contractual rights and obligations.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

'Ripe for Disruption': 4 Female Attorneys Co-Found Health Law Strategists

"We want to eliminate the model of where I succeed at the expense of someone else and [instead] create more of a teamwork model and work collaborative and have one another's back to meet client demands but also to meet life demands," said founding partner Laurice Rutledge Lambert.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Hillcreek Rehab and Care Sues Feds Over Medicare Agreement

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
1 minute read

Daily Report Online

Ga. Court of Appeals Mulls Jury Award Apportionment in Dental-Malpractice Case

"You're asking us to do something for the first time ever," Judge John "Trea" Pipkin said "Yes, but it's the right outcome," defendant-appellant attorney Austin Atkinson replied.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Deputy GC at Sleep Apnea Device Maker Gets Dream Job

ResMed is handing the legal reins to an 11-year employee who previously worked in-house at Callaway Golf and American Airlines.
2 minute read

Law.com

PREP Act Immunity Supersedes Parental Rights, Says Kansas Appeals Court in COVID-19 Vaccine Debate

Pharmacists who administer COVID-19 vaccines to minors without parental consent are protected from liability by the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, the Kansas Court of Appeals ruled.
5 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Health Insurers Face ERISA Lawsuit for Allegedly Reversing an Approved Claim

The complaint alleged that a United Healthcare representative encouraged the plaintiffs not to file a lawsuit.
2 minute read

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