Whistleblower Law Insights

Recent scandals involving two of the “Big Four” accounting firms have added weight to the need for a robust program to encourage whistleblowers to provide the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board...

Individuals looking to report companies that evade antidumping or countervailing duties (AD/CVD) through fraud should be aware of the avenues available to whistleblowers and the significant rewards whistleblowers...

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions’ tentative settlement with the US Department of Justice for $145 million would be the second largest settlement involving electronic health records (EHR) so far, if finalized....

Almost a decade has passed since the Dodd-Frank Act was signed into law, creating whistleblower programs at the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and by most...

A major whistleblower law went into effect in Australia this week, offering important, enhanced whistleblower protections against job retaliation. But the Australian law lacks a critical component of successful...

In an alarming and outrageous case involving information misappropriated from the very body that oversees it, accounting giant KPMG admitted earlier this month to using that information to alter clients’...

Congress has passed a key bipartisan IRS reform bill with important improvements to the IRS whistleblower program that needs only President Trump’s signature to become law. UPDATE: President Trump signed...

A recent Securities and Exchange Commission whistleblower reward marks the first time the agency has issued an award to a whistleblower who reported alleged corporate misconduct to the whistleblower’s...

The House Financial Services Committee last week approved a bill that would extend the anti-retaliation provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act to whistleblowers who suffer retaliation before they report possible...

Whistleblower awards by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission now total more than $88.5 million, with the news of a CFTC whistleblower award of $1.5 million this week. The recent CFTC whistleblower...