Whistleblower Law Insights

The Denver Post reports that the 10th Circuit has reversed a lower court dismissal of a $7.6 million jury verdict against Kerr-McGee. The suit, brought by a former Minerals Management Service auditor,...

The federal government filed a civil suit against Boeing, alleging that the company unlawfully inflated the price it charged the Air Force to manufacture the Towed Decoy System for the B-1 bomber. The...

A synopsis of an article published in the September 2, 2008 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine: “Federal regulators have aggressively prosecuted health care fraud since the early 1990s, leading...

Investigators from the US Attorney’s Office in Buffalo and the US Dept. of Health and Human Services are looking into health care fraud involving kyphoplasty, according to a report in the Indiana...

The rate of improper Medicare payments for wheelchairs and other durable medical equipment is much higher than the government has estimated, according to a report from the Dept. of Health and Human Services’...

California Attorney General Edmund Brown announced a settlement with Citibank regarding the company’s illegal “account sweeping” program. The company used a computer program that wrongfully...

General Dynamics will pay $4 million to resolve claims that a subsidiary of the company fraudulently billed the government for parts used in Navy and Air Force aircraft and submarines. The U. S. Attorney...

Following the recent jury verdict against Science Applications Iinternational Company, the Washington Post has published an article on how the government’s increased reliance on contractors as consultants...

Amerigroup Corp., a Virginia insurance company, has agreed to end a pending appeal and pay $225 million to resolve claims that it defrauded the Illinois Medicaid program. A federal jury had found that...

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has agreed to pay the United States $2.1 million to settle charges that it violated the False Claims Act. According to the Justice Department press release, the settlement...