June 02, 2017
“Why whistleblowers get paid in the U.S. but not in Britain”
Phillips & Cohen partner Sean McKessy, the former chief of the SEC whistleblower office, was quoted in Bloomberg Businessweek talking about why the US pays whistleblowers while the UK does not. There’s...
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June 01, 2017
“eClinicalWorks whistleblower: NYC health department was indifferent to EHR flaws”
Phillips & Cohen partner Colette G. Matzzie spoke with Healthcare IT News about the whistleblower case Phillips & Cohen brought against electronic health records vendor eClinicalWorks. The case...
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May 31, 2017
“Feds levy $155M fine against software vendor for faulty patient records”
Politico covered a ground-breaking $155 million settlement with electronic health records vendor eClinicalWorks. The settlement came as a result of a whistleblower lawsuit filed by Phillips & Cohen....
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May 31, 2017
“Whistleblower triggers $32.5 million settlement with Florida managed care organization”
Edward H. Arens, a whistleblower lawyer with Phillips & Cohen, spoke with RACmonitor about the $32.5 settlement of a whistleblower lawsuit brought by Phillips & Cohen on behalf of a Florida...
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May 30, 2017
“Don’t mistake payments for approval, U.S. attorneys say”
Claire M. Sylvia, a partner at Phillips & Cohen, tells Bloomberg BNA’s Federal Contracts Report that “the government’s continued payment when it is on notice of an alleged violation”...
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May 15, 2017
“More apologies are due from Barclays’ Staley”
Letter to the Editor by Erika A. Kelton in the Financial Times, 3/13/17. “Much has been made about Barclays chief executive Jes Staley’s apology to shareholders for the witch hunt he undertook...
May 10, 2017
“The right or wrong CHOICE for the SEC”
Phillips & Cohen partner Sean McKessy speaks with Commercial Dispute Resolution where he explores the reasons why the Financial Choice Act’s provision to strip eligibility for rewards from whistleblowers...
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May 09, 2017
“Sean X. McKessy: King of the whistleblowers”
Sean X. McKessy, a partner at Phillips & Cohen, was profiled by Compliance Week in its “Top Minds Issue,” where it named him “King of the Whistleblowers” for his role “building...
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May 05, 2017
“IRS should use whistleblowers, not collection agencies, to close the tax gap”
Phillips & Cohen partner Erika Kelton wrote an op-ed in The Hill looking at why the IRS’s decision to once again hire private debt collectors to go after small overdue tax bills is misguided....
April 05, 2017
“Wells Fargo Will Appeal $5.4M OSHA Whistleblower Award”
Stephen Hasegawa tells Corporate Counsel that the OSHA order for Wells Fargo to rehire a bank manager that used the company’s ethics hotline to report fraudulent activity back in 2010 and pay him...
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