Legal Broadcast Network recently interviewed Los Angeles attorney Tracy Green, and expert in health care regulatory issues, on the possible outcomes of the dispute between Theranos, a $9 billion valued private biotech company started by Elizabeth Holmes, and The Wall Street Journal.
Theranos is offering a new technology solution to an old problem. In October, the Wall Street Journal published a report alleging that Theranos’s claims about its transformative diagnostic technology, including needle-free blood tests that yield faster results than industry standard tests, do not hold up. Theranos fired back with a denial, offering a rebuttal to statements in the article and suggesting that the reporter, John Carreyrou, had been trying to “take down” Theranos.
As to the possibility of a libel action against the Wall Street Journal, Green points out that “libel cases are hard to win.” Green is involved in a case involving reporting by John Carreyrou, and she says that he is meticulous in detailing what he does. Green says that an FDA report released this week will affect any decision to sue. The FDA report is a public record, so it would be important in any issue as to the truth of what the Journal printed.
Green also notes that Carreyrou apparently did a good job of cultivating sources—employees and former employees of Theranos. Whether Carreyrou acted in good faith and checked his facts would also be important. Green says that Theranos has been known to be “incredibly secretive.” The company worked in hidden buildings with no indication of what was going on there. Getting information from insiders will be an important consideration, especially if this information tracks with what the FDA reported.
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