Correction: Mass. Appeals Court Revives Fired Employee’s Religious Claim Over Vaccine Refusal September 30, 2025 By Andrew G. Simpson A surgical technician who was fired in 2021 after refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine for religious reasons can pursue...
Mass. Orders Insurers to Cover State-Backed Vaccines, Even Without CDC Support September 5, 2025 Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey said Thursday the state had ordered insurers to cover vaccines backed by its health department, even...
Michigan Insurer In Talks to Settle Lawsuits Over Fired Workers and COVID-19 Vaccine February 18, 2025 A major Michigan insurance company is in talks to possibly settle more than 100 lawsuits by employees who were fired...
Germany’s BioNTech Settles With US Agency, UPenn Over COVID Vaccine Royalties December 27, 2024 BioNTech has entered into two separate settlement agreements with the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the University of Pennsylvania...
GSK Sues Moderna for Patent Infringement Over COVID, RSV Vaccines October 15, 2024 By Blake Brittain British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline sued Moderna in federal court in Delaware on Tuesday, accusing its American rival of violating GSK’s patent...
Oklahoma Manufacturer Sued For Firing Employees Over COVID Vaccine Exemptions September 3, 2024 AG Equipment Company, a Broken Arrow, Oklahoma compressor packaging manufacturer, violated federal law when it fired 10 employees for failing...
Texas Attorney General Sues Pfizer Over COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy December 1, 2023 By Jonathan Stempel Pfizer has been sued by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who on Thursday accused the drugmaker of misrepresenting the efficacy...
The Legal Tensions of Collaboration and Competition in the Life Sciences Industry September 20, 2023 By Christopher Thompson Moderna’s suit against Pfizer and partner BioNtech over alleged COVID-vaccine-related patent infringement – and the targets’ countersuit – might suggest...
Injured Worker Upheld in Refusing Suitable Return Job Because He Opposed Vaccination September 12, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson It was reasonable for an injured employee who is returning to work to refuse a job that accommodated his disability...
AstraZeneca Faces 2 London Lawsuits Over COVID-19 Vaccines August 24, 2023 By Sam Tobin AstraZeneca is facing two London lawsuits, including one from the husband of a woman who died after receiving the Anglo-Swedish...