February 22, 2018
“High court whistleblower ruling could affect internal reporting”
Business Insurance quoted Phillips & Cohen partner Sean McKessy in its story on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Digital Realty Trust v Somers, which said that whistleblowers are not protected by...
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February 21, 2018
“SCOTUS whistleblower case dodges Chevron deference showdown”
Phillips & Cohen partner Sean McKessy was quoted in a Reuters column about the recent Supreme Court decision limiting the scope of Dodd-Frank’s whistleblower protections. That’s a mixed blessing...
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February 14, 2018
“Pure Collection pays out over £600,000 in US customs evasion lawsuit”
UK news site Retail Gazette quoted Phillips & Cohen’s Molly Knobler about her whistleblower case that alleged luxe UK clothing retailer Pure Collection evaded customs duties. The case settled...
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February 12, 2018
“Barclays’ new SFO charge shows financial crisis can still cause pain a decade on”
Phillips & Cohen partner Erika Kelton spoke to The Telegraph about a new charge brought by the UK’s Serious Fraud Office regarding allegations of misconduct stemming back to the financial crisis....
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February 01, 2018
“Health Diagnostic Lab Ex-CEO, BlueWave Healthcare Owners Found Liable of Medicare Fraud”
360Dx, part of the GenomeWeb network, quoted Phillips & Cohen partner Peter Chatfield on the success of a jury trial that resulted from a whistleblower lawsuit, where one of the whistleblowers was...
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February 01, 2018
“Jury finds HDL’s Mallory liable for at least $16.6 million in federal lawsuit”
Phillips & Cohen partner Peter Chatfield spoke with the Richmond Times-Dispatch after a jury found former Health Diagnostic Laboratory CEO Tonya Mallory and the owner’s of HDL’s former...
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January 12, 2018
“Consulate Health Care Absolved in $348M Medicare Fraud Case”
Phillips & Cohen partner Peter Chatfield was quoted in Bloomberg BNA about a recent decision in a whistleblower lawsuit involving alleged Medicare fraud. He analyzed what a judge got wrong in his...
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January 08, 2018
“False Claims Act Pioneer Returns to Whistleblower Practice”
Phillips & Cohen co-founder John Phillips spoke with the The Wall Street Journal in a Q&A about the success and future of the False Claims Act and its “qui tam” whistleblower provisions....
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December 23, 2017
“Kmart to pay $32.3M to settle health care-related whistleblower case”
Kmart agreed to pay $42 million ($32.3 of which went to the federal government) to settle allegations Kmart overcharged government healthcare programs and private insurers for generic prescription drugs....
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November 28, 2017
“U.S. Supreme Court to look at who should get whistleblower protections in corporate America”
Phillips & Cohen partner Sean McKessy, the founding chief of the SEC Whistleblower Program, along with Cato Institute’s Ilya Shapiro, spoke on NPR-affiliate KPCC’s AirTalk examining today’s...
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