Indiana Legal Services, a nonprofit law firm, filed a lawsuit Monday on behalf of four Indiana citizens against the federal government, claiming Indiana’s plan to enforce work requirements for Medicaid recipients improperly jeopardizes health coverage for thousands. Work requirements have recently been endorsed by the Trump Administration, but various courts have blocked state implementation. The [...]
California’s Senate passed a bill on Friday that would require state university to offer abortion medication to students starting in 2023. California Governor Gavin Newsom is currently reviewing the bill as it awaits his signature before becoming law. Specifically, the bill affirms that the state has an interest in ensuring that women have access to [...]
Numerous drug makers engaged in multi-district litigation (MDL) of more than 2,000 opioid lawsuits, filed a motion on Saturday calling for the disqualification of the presiding judge. In the memorandum issued in support of the motion, the drug companies claim that US District Judge Dan Polster is biased against the companies. MDL cases arise when [...]
A Canadian pharmaceutical lobbying group, Innovative Medicines Canada (IMC), and its members filed a lawsuit on Friday against the government, resisting new regulations meant to lower patented drug prices. The lawsuit is the second legal challenge from the group within the past three months after the Canadian government made major reforms to lower drug prices. [...]
A state appeals court in New Jersey ruled on Tuesday that the state’s newly passed law allowing terminally ill patients to seek life-ending drug can move forward. The ruling overturns a lower court’s recent decision blocking the law. The law, titled the Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act, would allow patients with [...]
An Oklahoma judge on Monday ordered Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to pay $572.1 million to the state for their role in the state’s opioid crisis. The first trial of an opioid manufacturer, the decision is also the first holding a drug-maker culpable for the opioid epidemic. Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter alleged that J&J’s false [...]
Numerous Democratic senators authored a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday to urge the agency to take action against a drug company that hid falsified data while seeking approval for the most expensive gene therapy in US history. Led by Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), the senators requested the FDA to take [...]
The Canadian government on Friday announced major reforms to the country’s price regulations on patented drugs. The changes are the “most significant reforms to the regulations” since 1987, according a recent press release by Health Canada. Overall, the new regulations will serve as the first step in the implementation of Canada’s proposed national pharmacare plan. [...]
A federal judge ruled on Monday that the state of Nevada cannot join in litigation against an Affordable Care Act (ACA) provision mandating employers to offer birth control to employees. Nevada attempted to intervene as a defendant in order to defend the provision. Originally, private citizens and companies sued the Department of Health and Human [...]
Utah’s Supreme Court has unanimously struck down a state law requiring medical malpractice plaintiffs to obtain a “certificate of compliance” from a state agency. The court ruled that the law, known as the Malpractice Act, was unconstitutional as it violates the separation of powers doctrine by limiting the role of the judiciary. In Utah, a [...]
