Category: False Claims

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Government Recovers Over $2.8 Billion Whistleblowers Lead Recovery Efforts Whistleblowers Initiated 75% of All Government FCA Recoveries Whistleblowers carry the laboring oar in enforcing laws against false claims to the government. Of the $2.8 billion recovered by the government in 2018 in False Claims Act (“FCA”)[1]cases, $2.1 billion, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Whistleblowers and State Tax Fraud California Missing Out It’s high time California allowed whistleblowers to bring false claim suits for unpaid State taxes or provided for whistleblower awards for tax fraud tips. As matters currently stand, California tax laws violations are excluded from the California False Claims Act. […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Securities and Exchange Commission Pays Out Millions in Whistleblower Awards Whistleblower information about securities law violations is one of the most powerful weapons protecting consumers from securities fraud in this country. Through their knowledge of the circumstances and individuals involved, whistleblowers help authorities identify possible fraud and other […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Healthcare Fraud on the Government The Three Pillars of Government Enforcement and Prevention Whistleblowers Rewarded Healthcare fraud against Medicare and other government health care programs amounts to billions of dollars every year. Whistleblowers initiate the majority of enforcement and recovery actions and typically bring their cases under three […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER False Claims Act Cases for Overcharging Government Settles Large Whistleblower Suit Against Compounding Pharmacy Whistleblower Rewarded Healthcare fraud against Medicare, Medicaid, and other government health care programs amounts to billions of dollars every year. Overcharging for drugs and procedures is a major type of this fraud.  Whistleblowers bring […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Important False Claims Act Case for Sales of Defective Drugs Will the Department of Justice Put Public Health and Safety at Risk? Last year, the Ninth Circuit reinstated all claims of a whistleblower (also called a “relator”) brought under the federal False Claims Act (FCA) against the large […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER False Claims Act Cases For Kickbacks and Falsifying Records Two Large Whistleblower Settlements Awards in whistleblower cases brought for false claims against the government can be very substantial. Last week, the government announced two settlements in false claim whistleblower cases with rewards for the whistleblowers, discussed below, that […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Financial Industry Whistleblowers The Government’s Whistleblower Program and Awards Government prosecutors need your help in prosecuting financial fraud and will reward you if your information leads to a recovery. The Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 (“FIRREA”) and Financial Institutions Anti-Fraud Enforcement Act of 1990 […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER False Claims Act Cases Against Healthcare Industry Government Announces Another Large Whistleblower Settlement With help from whistleblowers, the government pursues companies and contractors who defraud the government with false claims for payment or reimbursement. The majority of false claims come from the healthcare industry. Typically, whistleblowers initiate recovery […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Large Whistleblower Settlement For Illegal Upcoding False claims for inflated Medicare reimbursements (sometimes in the form of “upcoding”) are a common fraud against the government. Under the False Claims Act, whistleblowers initiate the majority of recovery actions against companies for submitting such inflated claims. The California and San Francisco […]