Whistleblower Law Insights

At the confirmation hearing for US attorney general nominee William Barr before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Jan. 15, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) questioned Barr about his views of the False Claims...

Taxpayers Against Fraud (TAF), a public interest non-profit dedicated to promoting and protecting government whistleblower programs, sent a letter on Jan. 10 to the Senate Judiciary Committee to express...

Whistleblowers continue to play a major role in stopping healthcare fraud and other fraud against the government, according to the latest statistics on False Claims Act cases released by the US Department...

A pharmaceutical company’s donation to a charity to help patients pay their copays for prescription drugs can sound like a magnanimous gesture, but if done to induce Medicare patients to purchase the...

The Alberta Securities Commission has adopted a whistleblower program that offers confidentiality and protection against job retaliation for whistleblowers. However, the ASC failed to include one of the...

The number of whistleblower submissions to the US Securities and Exchange Commission whistleblower increased 18 percent the past year compared to the previous year, according to a recent SEC report, most...

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s whistleblower program marked a banner year in FY 2018, reversing several years of flagging performance and setting several records for the program. In its...

The European Parliament is wrestling with a directive that would mandate that all European Union member states codify certain whistleblower protections into law. In comments submitted to the European Commission...

Whistleblowers in the UK, like whistleblowers elsewhere, often face enormous career and personal risks when reporting wrongdoing. The Guardian newspaper recently interviewed 12 UK whistleblowers in various...

FIRREA – the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act – has proven to be a powerful law when it comes to prosecuting banks for misconduct involving the issuance of residential mortgage-backed...