Whistleblower Law Insights

New York Governor David Paterson and State Medicaid Inspector General James Sheehan announced that the state recovered $551 million in funds lost to Medicaid fraud and abuse. The federal government requires...

KPMG LLP, an audit, tax and advisory firm, has released a survey that suggests that ethics in companies and organizations may be trumped by pressures to succeed. 74 percent of the 5,000 U.S. workers surveyed...

L-3 Vertex Aerospace has paid the government $4 million to resolve allegations that the company overcharged the government on an Iraq war contract. The False Claims Act suit, which was originally filed...

The Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program, a collaboration between the Justice Department and the Dept. of Health and Human Services has released its annual report. The report shows that the government...

Two Tennessee hospitals, Jackson Madison General Hospital and Milan General Hospital, have agreed to pay the federal government $2.6 million and $5.3 million respectively to settle false claims allegations....

MedQuist Inc., a medical transcription service provider based in New Jersey, will pay $6.6 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations, the U.S. Dept. of Justice reported. The company provided medical...

Bayer HealthCare LLC has agreed to pay the United States $97.5 million to resolve allegations that the company paid kickbacks to diabetic suppliers and caused those suppliers to submit false claims to...

RBC Mortgage Company (RBC) will pay the federal government more than $10.71 million to resolve a False Claims Act suit that alleged the company gave the U.S. government false information about borrowers...

St. Vincent Health System Inc. of Erie, Pennsylvania, will pay $1.9 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower lawsuit alleging overcharging of Medicare. The overcharges allegedly resulted...

Sen. Charles Grassley, one of the authors of the 1986 amendments that strengthened the False Claims Act, is concerned that money authorized through the recently approved $700 billion bailout not be lost...