Month: December 2015

Oklahoma and Georgia recently have enacted false claims laws that allow private citizens to file qui tam lawsuits to recover funds the states have lost due to fraud. The Oklahoma Medicaid False Claims...

Article by Erika Kelton published in Compliance Weekly, 12/29/15. “‘Nut jobs.’ That single, derisive term uttered at a conference in Chicago in early December by a prominent executive...

Erika Kelton in Bloomberg BNA, 12/29/15. Kelton said “whistle-blowers bring significant frauds to light.” “These are improper business practices that likely would never have been discovered but...

LONDON, ENGLAND, December 28, 2015 – Phillips & Cohen LLP, the leading whistleblower law firm, has opened a London office as part of its continuing commitment to provide whistleblowers with expert...

MIAMI, FLORIDA, December 22, 2015 – Hospital giant HCA has agreed to pay $2 million to the US and the state of Georgia to settle a whistleblower lawsuit brought by Phillips & Cohen LLP that alleged...

A British appeals court today upheld the conviction of Tom Hayes, a former UBS Group AG and Citigroup Inc. trader, for manipulating Libor and made clear that “everybody does it” is no excuse...

Endo Pharmaceuticals has been getting a lot of attention from the government lately. Just last week, Endo subsidiary Qualitest Pharmaceuticals, which manufactures chewable fluoride tablets prescribed to...

WASHINGTON, DC, December 18, 2015 – Thirty-two hospitals in 15 states agreed to pay more than $28 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit brought by Phillips & Cohen LLP alleging that the hospitals...

Article by Edward Arens published in Accounting Today, 12/16/15. “A recent report from the Government Accountability office says that despite whistleblowers’ growing importance to IRS recoveries,...

WASHINGTON, DC, December 11, 2015 – Whistleblower attorneys Mary Louise Cohen and Erika Kelton, both partners at Phillips & Cohen LLP, were selected to the 2016 Super Lawyers list for Washington,...