July 10, 2017
“Barclays Bank CEO gets reprimanded”
Financial Express quotes Phillips & Cohen partner Erika A. Kelton in its story about Barclays CEO Jes Staley’s “attempt to unmask a whistleblower.” Surely the investigations “will...
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July 07, 2017
“University, testing lab win fraud case on transplant allegations”
Claire M. Sylvia, a partner at Phillips & Cohen, spoke to Bloomberg BNA’s Health Care Fraud Report about a unique False Claims Act medical necessity case. Claire M. Sylvia, a partner with Phillips...
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Ninth Circuit Decision: Digital Realty Trust v Somers
(Note: This decision was overturned by the Supreme Court on Februrary 21, 2018) UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT PAUL SOMERS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DIGITAL REALTY TRUST INC., a Maryland...
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July 06, 2017
“Regulator reveals number of tip offs about advisers”
Phillips & Cohen partner Erika Kelton explains in a FT Adviser article why the UK Financial Conduct Authority is seeing fewer whistleblower reports than in prior years while US whistleblower programs...
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June 22, 2017
Court rules against Dodd-Frank whistleblower protections for internal whistleblowers
A recent ruling from a federal judge in Illinois has added to the minority view in a significant split in court opinions over whether employees who report suspicions of securities violations by their employers...
June 21, 2017
“Sepp Blatter is wrong. Whistleblowers are courageous and deserve our support”
Phillips & Cohen partner Erika A. Kelton’s letter to the editor was published in The Guardian on 6/21/17. The letter responds to anti-whistleblower comments made by Sepp Blatter, the former...
June 19, 2017
More states sue pharma companies for role in opioid epidemic
In the midst of the nationwide epidemic of opioid addiction and overdoses, states and local governments are turning to the courts in an effort to slow the overprescribing of opioid drugs and recover some...
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June 15, 2017
“Top 10 takeaways from the eClinicalWorks settlement”
Phillips & Cohen partner Colette Matzzie writes in HIStalk about the key takeaways from Phillips & Cohen’s ground-breaking whistleblower lawsuit against electronic health records vendor eClinicalWorks,...
June 10, 2017
“Law firms react to growing wave of whistleblower lawsuits”
Erika A. Kelton tells the National Law Journal about how Phillips & Cohen has expanded over the last six years, and what first attracted her to representing whistleblowers. “Phillips & Cohen’s...
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June 08, 2017
Food supplier to US military settles whistleblower case for $95 million
A Kuwaiti contractor that supplied food for US military forces in Iraq, Iran and Jordan will pay $95 million to resolve a whistleblower lawsuit under the False Claims Act and plead guilty to misdemeanor...
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