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US medical malpractice data reveals emerging healthcare liability trends that consistently appear in America before reaching the UK, offering insurers and indemnifiers critical early warning signals. With the gap between US and UK trends narrowing, particularly in areas like aesthetics and GLP-1 weight-loss medications, understanding these patterns becomes essential for identifying and managing risks before they mature into significant liability exposures.

The vast majority of prescriptions made by the NHS in England each year are dispensed by retail pharmacy businesses operating in communities around the country.

In this alert we sum up various developments relating to the UK's Groceries Supply Code of Practice (GSCOP) over the last few months...

The 2024 Global Food and Beverage survey highlights pollution as a key environmental risk, with increased regulatory scrutiny and fines. Companies must manage wastewater, non-hazardous pollutants, and odour, while mitigating biodiversity damage and historic pollution. Robust environmental control systems and insurance can help manage these risks.

The fast food and casual dining sector faces reputational risks from hygiene issues, employee abuse, customer discrimination, safety incidents, and active assailant attacks. Mitigating these risks requires strong hygiene protocols, ethical work practices, safety measures, and comprehensive crisis management plans.

We have seen an increase in the use of requests under the Freedom of Information Act to secure a commercial advantage.

Welcome to RPC Bites. Our aim in the next 2 minutes is to provide you with a flavour of some key legal, regulatory and commercial developments in the Food & Drink sector over the last fortnight…

In a decision that could have implications for many different products, the Scotch Whisky Association has won an important battle geographical indicators before the Court of Justice of the European Union.

On 14 June 2017, the European Union Court of Justice (CJEU) handed down a preliminary ruling that milk products, including cheese, yoghurt etc. cannot be named as such where they do not contain the animal product.

On November 17, 2023, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published a Prioritisation Statement on combination therapies.

On May 16 the second edition of our new global series, Life Sciences and Health Care Horizons, took place in London featuring two panel discussions that focused on the challenges

Obesity affects over 1.9 billion people worldwide. In 2024, global spend on anti-obesity medication exceeded $30 billion for the first time, which is over a ten-fold increase since 2020...

In the race to get new products into a massively saturated market, it is easy for food and drink businesses to skip over protecting every aspect of their intellectual property...

Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the Labour Party, recently announced a report entitled "Medicines For the Many: Public Health before Private Profit", which sets out a proposed set of policies

We cover the four key amendments made in relation to pharmaceutical patents.

The recent Enlarged Board of Appeal decision G2/21 has brought the spotlight back onto the topic of the use of experimental data for providing proof of a technical...

Our advertising and marketing team read the Advertising Standard Authority's (ASA) rulings every week and each month select the ones we think you need to know about and of course, one for fun.

The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has issued new guidance on how it will enforce restrictions on advertising less healthy food and drink products online and on television. Through several July 2026 rulings involving major brands like M&M's, Domino's, and KFC, the ASA clarified when the 'brand advertising exemption' applies and when product imagery crosses the line into depicting specific restricted products.