Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 205: Novant Health’s Carolinas Expansion with Senior Vice President Jason Bernd
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 204: Accelerating Life Sciences Startups with James Chappell of SCbio
AI in the Operating Room: Liability Issues for Device Makers — The Good Bot Podcast
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 203: Manufacturing Specialty Drugs for Rare Diseases in North Carolina with Paul Testa of Kyowa Kirin
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 202: Life Sciences Startups and Industry Developments with Gil Price, Life Sciences Leader
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 201: SHL Medical’s Investment in the Carolinas with Kimberlee Steele of SHL Medical
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 200: Athlete Mental Health and Physical Conditioning With Dawn Staley
False Claims Act Insights - Assessing the Fallout from a Thermonuclear FCA Verdict
The Future of Laboratory Testing Just Got a Little Clearer: FDA's Final Rule on LDTs – Diagnosing Health Care
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 199: Bringing Awareness to Organ and Tissue Donation with Dave DeStefano of We Are Sharing Hope
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 198: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Life Sciences with hosts Matthew Roberts and Lauren DeMoss, Maynard Nexsen Health Care Attorneys
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 196: Regulation Trends in Healthcare and Certificate of Need with Rebecca Thornhill of Maynard Nexsen
The FDA's Response to AI Medical Innovation — The Good Bot Podcast
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 195: Life Sciences and Healthcare Workforce Development with Dr. John Hauser of Gaston College
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 194: Workforce Development for the Life Sciences Industry with David Stefanich of Rymedi
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 193: Federally Qualified Health Centers and Rural Health with Dr. Jeniqua Duncan of CareSouth Carolina
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 192: Business Issues for Healthcare with Ira Bedenbaugh and Randi Branham of Elliott Davis
Introduction to The Good Bot: Decoding AI and Its Integration Into Health Care — The Good Bot Podcast
FDA Releases Laboratory-Developed Tests Final Rule – Thought Leaders in Health Law
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 191: South Carolina Lowcountry Healthcare with Walter Bennet, MUSC Orangeburg CEO
Morrison Foerster Investigations + White Collar Defense partner Nate Mendell, former Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, hosted the fourth episode of When Your Life Sciences Are on the Line, where leading...more
Qui tam relators and the U.S. Department of Justice continue to expand usage of the False Claims Act....more
In early October 2023, Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Lisa Monaco announced a “new” (but not new) Department of Justice (DoJ) policy intended to incentivize acquiring companies to voluntarily self-disclose criminal misconduct...more
Hosted by American Conference Institute, the 11th Annual Advanced Forum on False Claims and Qui Tam Enforcement returns for another exciting year for lively discussions on FCA enforcement including the ramifications of two...more
The Boston Bar Association held its annual White Collar Crime Conference on May 4, 2023, featuring lawyers from the defense and plaintiffs’ bar and current and former prosecutors from the US Attorney’s Office for the District...more
With the new administration poised to take office, public and private companies will need to consider how President Biden’s regulatory, enforcement, and legislative priorities will affect their businesses. During this...more
I have written extensively about the Novartis International AG (Novartis) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) settlement, which was announced in late June. However, the enforcement action paled next to the Stipulation and...more
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (Novartis) has started July with significant settlements, putting two different fraud and abuse matters behind them. In what has been identified as the largest settlement of an...more
This blog post will close my review of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action involving the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG, its Greek subsidiary Novartis Hellas S.A.C.I. (Novartis Greece) and...more
This week I am reviewing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action involving the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG, its Greek subsidiary Novartis Hellas S.A.C.I. (Novartis Greece) and Alcon Pte Ltd.,...more
At the outset, Novartis is “lucky” – the settlement is relatively positive, despite its 2016 SEC enforcement action in China. Given Novartis weak culture of compliance (if anything, a better description may be a culture of...more
Novartis and Alcon engaged in separate but significant bribery schemes. Considering the fact that Novartis had a similar violation in 2016 in China involving much of the same conduct, Novartis’ conduct reflects a weak...more
Despite political and economic uncertainties, markets and deal activity were resilient in 2019, and strong fundamentals remain in place heading into 2020. Companies continue to face a challenging litigation and enforcement...more
Receiving notice that the government is investigating your organization, employees or corporate and/or scientific practice can be a cause for alarm – but it doesn’t have to be. Former federal prosecutors and Jackson Lewis...more
On October 1, 2019, in In re Clovis Oncology, Inc. Derivative Litigation, a Delaware Chancery Court denied a motion to dismiss the plaintiffs’ claims under the Caremark decision against individual directors for failing to...more
In this episode, Akin Gump health care and life sciences counsel Taylor Jones and Matt Wetzel discuss the Justice Department’s recent guidance on evaluation of corporate compliance programs. Among the topics covered: •...more
Key Considerations and Updates for Life Sciences Companies - On April 30, 2019, the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued updated guidance for white-collar prosecutors on evaluating the...more
On April 23, federal prosecutors announced the first-ever felony charges against a drug distributor — Rochester Drug Co-Operative, Inc. (RDC) — and two of its executives for illegally distributing opioid painkillers....more
In 2018, President Donald Trump and numerous executive branch agencies announced proposals that, if implemented, will reshape the landscape for virtually every sector of the health care industry. Many of these proposals are...more
The government is leveraging its access to big data in order to aggressively pursue healthcare investigations. Maria Durant and Gejaa Gobena, partners in our Boston and Washington, D.C. offices, discuss the steps life...more
2016 was a year of change for the Department of Health and Human Service's Office of Inspector General's (OIG) approach to corporate integrity agreements (CIA). The OIG began to use its new model CIA format and applied its...more