Month: April 2010

WASHINGTON, DC – One of the two whistleblower lawsuits, brought by Phillips & Cohen, that is being settled as part of Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s and Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical...

The U.S. Dept. of Justice announced that pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca will pay $520 million to settle allegations of off-label marketing. Charges that the company illegally marketed the anti-psychotic...

The Inspector General for the Dept. of Health and Human Services has created a page on its website that collects information about state Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCUs). State MFCUs investigate and...

The Washington Post reports that Scott J. Bloch, the Bush-era director of a federal office in charge of protecting government whistleblowers from unfair treatment, will plead guilty to withholding information...

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced that the state’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) recovered more that $283 million in 2009. The unit also obtained 148 criminal convictions related...

Governor Martin O’Malley has signed the Maryland False Health Claims Act, introduced as Senate Bill 279. The Governor’s press release says that the new legislation will allow Maryland to recover...

The Securities & Exchange Commission has had a bounty program for whistleblowers in place since 1989, but has made only five payments for a total of $159,537. A report from the SEC’s Inspector...