Month: March 2006

Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly has sent demand letters to contractors involved in the Boston area highway project known as the Big Dig. In the letters the office demands $108 million in...

Cell Therapeutics disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that a private party has made claims against it under seal on behalf of the government. This is the language frequently...

By Erika Kelton Phillips & Cohen LLP Washington, DC Note: An edited version of this article appeared in the March 20, 2006 issue of Drug Topics under the title, “Qui tam suits and you.”...

Article by Erika A. Kelton published in Drug Topics, 3/20/2006.   Business practices in the pharmaceutical industry are changing largely as a result of whistleblower (“qui tam”) cases...

Conservative members of Canada’s Parliament are considering a law based on the United States’ False Claims Act. The U.S. law allows a whistleblowers who suspects fraud against the government...

The U.S. Government Accountability Office has posted on its website a copy of the briefing they prepared for Congress on False Claims Act litigation. The report shows that health care and procurement fraud...

A whistle-blower case against defense contractor Custer Battles has resulted in a jury verdict against the company and its owners. The suit, brought under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act,...

The Federal government has filed a motion to intervene in a whistleblower suit against Mario Gabelli and his firm. The suit, brought under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act, alleges that the...

An article in Modern Healthcare by Mark Taylor outlines some of the provisions in the federal Deficit Reduction Act that are intended to cut fraud by encouraging whistleblowers. One provision requires...

New York State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno says that a proposed reform of the state’s Medicaid system could save more than $2 billion a year. Bruno says that the Republican majority’s...