Affordable Care Act (ACA)

Healthcare | Private Equity

Barry Liss | Gibbons P.C.

I. Introduction and Background Hospital consolidation is back. After the unprecedented peak of the late 1990s, M&A activity in the hospital sector is accelerating again. There are important differences between now and then. The consolidation of the '90s was largely viewed...

Biotechnology | Healthcare | Life Sciences

Blaine Templeman | Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

What is the crashing noise so many pharmaceutical companies are hearing these days? Some say it is the sound of key products going over the “patent cliff.” The press has focused recently on the number of blockbuster drugs that are coming off or have come off patent. The news has...

Healthcare

Eric G. Lasker | Hollingsworth LLP

On January 8, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in Milward v. Acuity Specialty Prods. Grp., Inc., 639 F.3d 11 (1st Cir. 2011) and let stand a First Circuit holding admitting a plaintiff expert’s causation opinion resting solely on his self-proclaimed “weight of the...