Healthcare
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The Texas federal judge who vacated the Affordable Care Act last year tossed an Obama-era regulation banning federally funded health insurance plans from discriminating on the basis of gender identity, saying the rule violated the Administrative Procedure Act and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $20.4 million to resolve claims by two Ohio counties that were going to be at the center of the first bellwether trial later this month in multidistrict litigation against drugmakers blamed for the U.S. opioid crisis… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday certified a class of direct purchasers of Suboxone as well as a class of end payors in multidistrict litigation over an alleged product-hopping scheme by Indivior PLC to block generic versions of the opioid treatment drug from coming to market… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A slew of major drugmakers and distributors on Monday lost their bids to kill a suit brought by Tucson Medical Center Inc. blaming the pharmaceutical giants for financial harm the nonprofit Arizona hospital says it suffered as a result of the companies’ roles in the U.S. opioid crisis… Read this piece in its entirety at
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A Delaware federal judge on Thursday granted British pharma company Vectura’s request for $10.5 million in supplemental damages in a case in which a jury found GlaxoSmithKline willfully infringed a patent covering inhalers, though the judge denied Vectura’s bid for an additional $33 million in enhanced damages… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 