Month: June 2008

One of the major whistleblowers in the qui tam lawsuits against healthcare giant HCA has written a book about his experience, described by his publisher as a “harrowing journey from ordinary citizen...

The Justice Department is suing Honeywell International Inc. for knowingly selling defective material for use in bulletproof vests. The suit claims that Honeywell knew that the ballistic material called...

Home Hospice of North Texas will pay the U.S. a total of $500,000 to resolve civil False Claims Act allegations. The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas had alleged that the company and its...

Walgreen Co. has agreed to pay $35 million to settle claims that it improperly switched patients to different versions of the prescription drugs Ranitidine, Fluoxetine and Eldepryl in order to increase...

The Government Accountability Project and American University Washington College of Law are sponsoring a conference on whistleblower rights. The Emerging Era in Whistleblower Rights and the Public’s...

In a unanimous opinion by Justice Samuel Alioto, the U.S. Supreme Court Court raised the government’s burden of proof in subcontractor fraud suits under the False Claims Act. In Allison Engine v. U.S....