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Feds' False Claims Act Lawsuit Against Regeneron Gets Partial Go-Ahead for Trial

"The government, like any litigant, is entitled to attempt to prove its case through circumstantial evidence and reasonable inferences," the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled.
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Texas Supreme Court Hears Argument on Medicaid Qualifying Rule

The facts of the underlying case involved a couple, Clyde and Dorothy Burt of Cleburne, who sold their residence to their daughter and were living in a rental before going to a nursing home. They then purchased a 50% interest in the home sold to the daughter, but the commission refused to recognize it as their home.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Ga. Appellate Court Holds There's No Exception for Deadline Confusion—Even During the Pandemic

"When we were in the midst of COVID, every case was different," said defendant-appellee counsel. "In all candor, I never was sure if I was calculating the deadlines correctly."
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Temple Hospital Faces $30M Judgment as It Backs Down From Failed Verdict Challenge

By opting not to appeal, TUH is accepting an August ruling that soundly rejected the hospital's efforts to advance an argument that the verdict should be remitted based on the harm it would cause to the community.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Miami Judge's Ruling on Show-Cause Order Could Have Attorney Advertising Reverberations

"This is going to have a huge chilling effect on the practice all of these lawyers have across the nation—and not just in Florida," John Ruiz of MSP Recovery said.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

DeSantis Said He Would Support a 15-Week Abortion Ban

After launching his presidential campaign last year, Gov. Ron DeSantis has largely avoided specifics when talking about abortion.
6 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Updated: Cigna to Pay $172 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations

"Medicare Advantage plans that submit false information to increase payments from CMS show blatant disregard for the integrity of these vital federal health care funds," Christian J. Schrank, deputy inspector general for investigations with the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services, said. "Such actions are an affront to the Medicare program and the millions of patients who rely on its services. Working with our law enforcement partners, our agency will continue to prioritize investigating alleged fraud that targets the Medicare Advantage program."
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

It Took More Than 25 Lawyers—But Foley & Lardner Just Beat the FTC

Senior U.S. District Judge Barbara Lynn said the FTC's expert witness testimony was not supported by the evidence and concluded "the FTC provides no other evidence to show that the brand partner purchases should be uniformly treated not as sales to ultimate users."
4 minute read

Law.com

Federal Judge Partially Sides With Mass General Brigham in 6 Plaintiffs' ADA Claims Against COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

"Nonetheless, the difficulty here—at least for present purposes—is that this case involves both a set of high-level judgments by MGB (that is, whether to require vaccinations generally, whether to permit exemptions under certain circumstances, and if so, according to what procedures) and a series of separate low-level individual judgments (that is, whether a particular employee qualified for a particular exemption)," U.S. District Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV wrote.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

OIG Issues Unfavorable Opinion for Proposed Arrangement Under the Anti-Kickback Statute

The requestor inquired as to whether the proposed arrangement would warrant sanctions under Section 1128(b)(7) or Section 1128(a)(7) of the Social Security Act (SSA), as they relate to Section 1128B(b), the federal anti-kickback statute (AKS).
9 minute read

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