Before parties reached a $260 million settlement, litigation was set to begin this month to determine whether drug companies are responsible for the opioid crisis that reached Cuyahoga County and Summit County of Ohio. The lawsuits brought by these Ohio counties are just two of the over 2,000 pending lawsuits […]

The issue of suicide as a felony has resurfaced. This time, however, the discussion isn’t centered around physician-assisted suicide. Instead, the focus is the criminality of attempted suicide. In February 2019, a 56-year-old man in Maryland plead guilty to a count of “attempted suicide” and was sentenced to a three-year […]

This year has been another significant year for consolidation within the biopharmaceutical industry. There has been an estimated $208 billion in transactions ; including Bristol-Myers’ $74 billion acquisition of Celgene in January to AbbVie’s $63 billion acquisition of Allergan in June which allows large biopharmaceutical companies to dominate the broader […]

Over the past year, mergers and acquisitions across industries are seeing a spike while appropriations to the antitrust division of the Department of Justice have remained the same. Included in this most recent spate of mergers are hospital systems. Hospitals are merging at record rates and PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts hospital system […]

Serena Williams is a superstar tennis player and a force to be reckoned with, especially after sharing her harrowing postnatal experience. Williams has a history of pulmonary embolisms, and the day after giving birth to her daughter via C-section, she had trouble breathing and believed she was experiencing a blood […]