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Texas Lawyer

Texas AG Teams With Baron & Budd to Recover $123M in Medicaid Fraud Settlements

“The politics really didn't matter,” Baron & Budd partner Scott Simmer added. “This was about protecting the Texas Medicaid program.”
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

2nd Circuit Blocks Allergan Whistleblower's Suit, Citing 'First-to-File' Violation

The U.S. Department of Justice had supported the former Allergan sales representative in the trial court but switched its stance in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The question presented to the court was one of first impression.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Employers Can't Dodge Medical Payments With Revised Agreement, Court Rules

Cabinet Transport Inc. had refused to pay over $6,600 to Armour Pharmacy for an employee's medicine.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Chewing Gum Heir Sinks Money Into Medical Marijuana

In a transaction some construe as the normalization of the medical cannabis industry, William “Beau” Wrigley Jr. led a $65 million round of funding in Surterra Wellness, one of Florida's 14 licensed medical marijuana operators.
1 minute read

New York Law Journal

Supreme Court Set to Tackle 'Secret' Patented Sales Under AIA

In his Intellectual Property column, Robert L. Maier discusses 'Helsinn Healthcare v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA,' in which the U.S. Supreme Court will address the scope and impact of the 'on sale bar' of the patent statute as it applies under the America Invents Act.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

MDL Panel Sends Shingles Vaccine Lawsuits From NY, Other States to Pennsylvania

The lawsuits, filed in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Wisconsin and Massachusetts, allege that Merck failed to warn that the virus in the vaccine caused shingles, brain damage and death, among other things.
1 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

MDL Panel Sends Shingles Vaccine Lawsuits to Pennsylvania

A federal judicial panel has sent about 100 lawsuits brought over Merck's shingles vaccine to Pennsylvania.
1 minute read

Litigation Daily

Daily Dicta: Quinn Wins Big in Case against Koch Brother (and Mintz Levin)

A Delaware judge chastised Mintz Levin for "picking sides" in its work on behalf of Oxbow Carbon and Bill Koch.
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Court Axes Accutane Suits, Adopts 'Daubert' Standard for Expert Reports

In the ruling, the court adopted the standard set by the U.S. Supreme Court's 1993 decision, "Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals," which sets a high standard for the use of experts in products liability cases—more stringent than New Jersey's Rule of Evidence 702.
1 minute read

Corporate Counsel

AstraZeneca Discloses Probe by DOJ Over Alleged Bribes to Terrorists in Iraq

The British drug company said in an SEC filing that the investigation is tied to allegations made against the company in a private lawsuit filed last year by U.S. veterans and their survivors.
1 minute read

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