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Over 20 Years Standing Up For Whistleblowers In Nationwide Fraud Litigation
It was an interesting scheme. According to allegations by the Department of Justice, Reliant Rehabilitation Holdings, Inc., wanted to induce or reward its client nursing homes for referring patients to Reliant for rehabilitation therapy. So, it sent over nurse...
It has been reported that Post Acute Medical, LLC, and certain affiliates ("PAM") have agreed to pay $13,168,000 to settle claims by the Justice Department, Texas and Louisiana that they violated the False Claims Act and parallel state statutes. The nationwide...
A Texas doctor will receive $4.9 million as a reward for blowing the whistle on seven ambulance industry defendants who allegedly paid kickbacks to municipal entities in several states in exchange for lucrative ambulance business. The alleged kickbacks violated the...
When Lance Armstrong used banned substances to win the Tour de France, he violated the False Claims Act, which imposes legal liability on those who commit fraud against federal programs. The reason his actions violated the False Claims Act is that he had received a...
Earlier this summer, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a proposal that would give it greater discretion when making awards to people who blow the whistle on securities violations under the Dodd-Frank Act. Allowing it to offer larger awards in small cases...
Pharmaceutical manufacturer Insys Therapeutics, Inc., has tentatively agreed to settle allegations by the U.S. Justice Department that it paid kickbacks to doctors in order to get them to prescribe its drug Subsys. The drug is an under-the-tongue spray containing the...
Calling it a "transformative year" for its whistleblower program, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced recently that it has awarded whistleblowers more than $45 million in rewards for identifying illegal activity. This is a dramatic increase over...
It was recently reported that a former employee of Second Chance Body Armor, Inc., blew the whistle on that company's sales of defective Zylon bulletproof vests to federal, state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies through the Justice Department's Bulletproof...
It was recently reported, that, after four different employees blew the whistle on false and inflated claims to Medicare and Medicaid, two healthcare concerns have admitted responsibility and agreed to pay a $14.7 million settlement. One was Health Quest Systems,...
When an employee sees something amiss at work, there shouldn't be a reason to stop them from doing something to resolve the issue. Fear of losing work or facing ridicule and mistreatment prevents some employees from speaking up even though they should expect...