The Legal Tensions of Collaboration and Competition in the Life Sciences Industry
Moderna's suit against Pfizer and partner BioNtech over alleged COVID-vaccine-related patent infringement — and the targets' countersuit — might suggest an abrupt ...
COVID News
COVID Impacts Linger in Courtrooms, Often a Disadvantage for Defendants
Courts have reopened and trials have resumed, but the impacts of COVID-19 continue to linger in the judicial system, a panel of claims litigation experts said during the Combined Claims Conference on ...
Appeals Court First to Rule in Favor of Coverage for COVID Shutdown
The attorney who filed the first U.S. lawsuit seeking insurance coverage for a business shut down because of coronavirus won the first policyholder victory in a state or federal appellate court that ...
COVID Underscores Lack of Whistleblower Protections
Originally posted on Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Inside a partially completed Amazon warehouse here, workers last summer walked on conveyor belts four stories high without ...
Germany to Offer COVID Insurance for Trade Fairs
The German government announced it will now be offering coverage for trade fair cancellations in a bid to restart the sector after COVID restrictions forced the meetings to go virtual. The new ...
Push to Consolidate COVID-19 Business Loss Suits Denied; Insurer-Based Grouping Eyed Instead
The legal panel on multidistrict litigation (MDL) has denied a proposal to consolidate cases brought by multiple businesses against various insurers for coronavirus-related business losses. At the ...