To anybody who wants a number of extra CLE hours earlier than the top of the 2024, we needed to let that videotaped periods from final week’s Reed Smith Annual Life Sciences Litigation CLE Week are actually obtainable on demand. Listed here are descriptions of the subjects and the registration hyperlink.
340B Program: Replace on Present Developments | Offered by Joe Metro and David Bender | This session updates attendees on the present standing of the 340B drug low cost program, together with ongoing litigation over producer contract pharmacy limits, potential implications of Loper Brilliant, developments with the executive dispute decision course of, state legislative initiatives, and potential rising mechanisms to determine ineligible and duplicate 340B reductions, together with beneath the Inflation Discount Act’s value regulation applications. Click on to register and examine on demand.
How the toughened up, amended Fed. R. Evid. 702 has been faring | Offered by Blogger Jim Beck (Bexis) and Sarah Johansen | The brand new and improved Fed. R. Evid. 702 has been in place since final December. Throughout this session, we study how the toughened up rule was created, the favorable Committee Notes and different committee supplies, and precedent about guidelines amendments. Then we focus on how the amendments have fared in courtroom, not solely favorable choices that exist in nearly each circuit, but in addition the unlucky persistence of propositions that the Committee Notes s declared “incorrect.” Lastly, we focus on state guidelines adopting comparable amendments. Click on to register and examine on demand.
New Rule 16.1 on MDLs | Offered by Blogger Steven Boranian and Christian Olivos | Proposed Federal Rule of Civil Process 16.1, which units forth procedures for dealing with Multi-District Litigations (MDLs), is probably going to enter impact in December 2025. This presentation explains what persistent MDL points prompted the creation of Rule 16.1, and what Rule 16.1 does and doesn’t do. It additionally suggests potential finest practices for coping with Rule 16.1, significantly with a view towards bettering the efficiencies of MDLs and facilitating early vetting of instances. Click on to register and examine on demand.
PFAS Litigation within the MedTech Trade: Key Instances and Rising Traits | Offered by Matt Jacobson, Allie Hussey, and Alexis Rochlin | PFAS are a broad class of gear present in quite a few shopper, industrial, and industrial merchandise, together with medical gadgets, prescription drugs, and their packaging. In recent times, litigation over allegations of PFAS being doubtlessly hazardous to human and environmental well being has exploded. This presentation contains an summary of the historical past of PFAS litigation and the way it sheds gentle on potential PFAS litigation towards medical machine and pharmaceutical firms. This presentation additionally gives sensible tips about how MedTech firms can mitigate threat related to potential PFAS litigation. Click on to register and examine on demand.
Product Legal responsibility in Europe: Understanding and Planning for the EU’s Current Complainant-Pleasant Shift | Offered by Blogger Lisa Baird and Wim Vandenberghe | Imminent authorized reforms will seriously change the legal responsibility dangers for drug and machine producers and suppliers in Europe. This session focuses on the lately adopted EU Product Legal responsibility Directive, which is dramatically complainant-friendly, each increasing the scope of permissible claims and vary of damages, in addition to imposing pro-claimant presumptions. Synergy between the brand new Product Legal responsibility Directive and the EU’s new class motion regime can be examined. This session assists life sciences leaders perceive these developments – and particularly the resultant compliance challenges and litigation dangers posed to their firms – and identifies sensible steps firms can start now, to decrease their dangers and enhance compliance. We additionally examine these European product legal responsibility adjustments to the present U.S. litigation and product legal responsibility panorama. Click on right here to register and examine on demand.
The New Frontier: AI in Product Legal responsibility Regulation | Offered by Mildred Segura and Christian Castile | This presentation is dedicated to the quickly rising AI motion because it impacts life science firms, calling out key authorized developments and associated enterprise issues. Click on right here to register and examine on demand.
CLE Data: For On-Demand Viewers
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