As Chief Judge Richard Posner famously recognized, "[t]he courtroom is not the place for scientific guesswork, even of the inspired sort. Law lags science; it does not lead it." Rosen v. Ciba-Geigy ...

In personal injury law, causation is the connection between someone's actions and the harm that happened because of them. It ...

One of the major concerns of the plaintiffs' bar was that the Court of Appeals decision in Bostic seemed to require a showing of strict "but-for" causation—so that but for the exposure to a specific ...

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Historically, the vast majority of revenue that the False Claims Act (FCA), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3733, generates has arisen from cases brought against the health care industry. 1 And a substantial number ...

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Courts continue to reject aggressive Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”) allegations. Most recently, on January 6, 2025, Judge Patti Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ...