Month: August 2006

Schering-Plough and a subsidiary have agreed to pay a total of $435,000,000 to resolve civil and criminal charges related to illegal sales and marketing programs for its drugs Temodar and Intron A, and...

Legislation that would increase the public’s access to government contract information has been blocked by a secret hold placed on it by an unidentified senator. S. 2590, the Federal Funding Accountability...

The Minority Office of the House Committee on Government Reform has issued a report, “Waste, Fraud and Abuse in Hurricane Katrina Contracts.” The Minority Office’s website says, ”...

The Office of the Inspector general of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services has issued guidelines for evaluating state false claims acts. The guidelines, published in the August 21, 2006 issue of...

Beverly Enterprises Inc. has agreed to pay $20 million to the federal government and the state of California to resolve allegations that its former subsidiary, MK Medical, submitted false claims to Medicare...

A federal judge has thrown out a jury verdict against Iraq defense contractor Custer Battles, saying that the False Claims Act did not apply. In March 2006 a jury had found that the company and two of...

Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center, of Lafayette, Louisiana, has agreed to pay $3.8 million to settle allegations that a cardiologist charged the government for unnecessary procedures. The suit...

University Hospitals Health System has agreed to pay approximately $14 million to settle allegations that its doctors made improper referrals involving Medicare cases. The suit was begun as a whistleblower...

A whistleblower who alleged that over $100 million in federal funds were improperly used to support a container terminal at the Port of Los Angeles cannot proceed with his suit. Stanley Mosley filed his...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that a whistleblower need not provide the government with information pertaining to the fraud allegations prior to the information’s public disclosure....