Whistleblower Law Insights

The US Securities and Exchange Commission whistleblower program had a record-breaking year in a number of ways, according to the SEC’s recently released 2021 Annual Report to Congress on the whistleblower...

The Department of Justice’s decision to join a whistleblower case against a Houston company that sells drug ingredients to compounding pharmacies is the latest government enforcement effort to crack...

The government has ramped up its enforcement of cybersecurity standards that are required of government contractors with the launch of its Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative – and whistleblowers are likely...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued a $200 million whistleblower award this week that is not only the largest one made by the CFTC under its Dodd-Frank whistleblower program but is also the...

Whistleblowers have filed in recent years a number of “qui tam” cases against Medicare Advantage companies alleging risk-adjustment fraud – a practice that drives a major portion of improper payments...

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is pushing Commodity Futures Trading Commission nominees to commit to revitalizing the CFTC’s whistleblower program, which is hurting due to budgetary constraints. In...

For fiscal year 2021, $1.2 trillion was allocated to Medicare (which in 2019 covered more than 58 million people). By 2028, Medicare expenditures are projected to reach $1.56 trillion (to cover approximately...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has launched probes into the practices of multiple crypto lending platforms, including DeFi platforms developed by Coinbase Global and Uniswap Labs, reinforcing...

Medical errors are the eighth leading cause of death in the United States. More people die from medical errors than from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS. The estimated annual cost of additional...

Sutter Health, northern California’s largest hospital system, is paying $90 million to settle a whistleblower’s qui tam lawsuit that alleged Sutter engaged in Medicare Advantage fraud to inflate its...