Whistleblower Law Insights

Defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. has agreed to pay $62 million to settle a nearly 16-year-old case alleging that the company systematically overcharged for materials used in the production of...

An Indiana company will pay $7.2 million to settle claims that it sold mice that did not meet researchers’ specifications to the National Institute on Aging. The government contended that the company...

The Florida attorney general has filed a lawsuit accusing Tenet Healthcare Corporation of improperly inflating medical procedure charges. The fraudulent inflation resulted in reimbursement from the Medicare...

A former Hewlett-Packard Co. employee filed a whistle blower lawsuit under the California False Claims Act, alleging that HP and its spinoff, Agilent Technologies Inc., tried to defraud customers by selling...

Cintas Corp., an Ohio-based uniform supplier, is being investigated to determine whether the company has been overcharging government agencies. The Justice Dept. has asked a judge to order Cintas to turn...

Florida International University has agreed to pay $11.5 million in settlement of allegations of mischarging and overbilling the U.S. Dept. of Energy under several contract and grants. The contracts and...

Cleveland Clinic Florida Hospital has paid the United States $2.75 million to settle allegations the hospital billed Medicare for observation services for patients who did not qualify for the reimbursement....

OPI Properties, a subsidiary of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis, pleaded guilty to attempting to elude or impede federal audits. The settlement was the result of an investigation into the feeding...

Fresno County will pay the federal government an additional $376,000 to settle a case involving false Medicare claims made in the 1990s. This brings the total to $652,937. Fresno County and the Fresno...

The U.S. Dept. of Justice announced that it had settled False Claims Act suits related to a gene therapy experiment that resulted in the death of an Arizona teenager. The University of Pennsylvania, Children’s...