Healthcare
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Life sciences company 10x Genomics Inc. experienced a data breach and attempted ransomware attack amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the company revealed on Wednesday in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Third Circuit ruled Wednesday that a district court erred when it granted summary judgment in favor of a hospice provider accused of bilking Medicare, nixing the lower court’s requirement for the plaintiffs to show an “objective falsehood” to proceed with their False Claims Act case… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A proposed supervised drug injection site in Philadelphia won approval to open its doors on Tuesday when a Pennsylvania federal judge swept aside the government’s arguments that the controversial facility, intended to reduce opioid overdose deaths, would violate federal drug laws… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A physician’s assistant charged with pretending to be a doctor and handing out unnecessary opioid prescriptions will have to face some of the previously dismissed charges against him, while his supervising physician is off the hook, a New Jersey state appeals court ruled Monday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A New York drug distributor told a Rochester federal court that Hiscox Insurance Co. shouldn’t be allowed to “flee from its coverage obligations” in a case seeking to force the insurer to advance costs for an upcoming trial over the drug distributor’s alleged role in the opioid epidemic… Read this piece in its entirety at
Mike LaSusa 