Month: March 2016

The Securities and Exchange Commission has reaffirmed its position that whistleblowers who report wrongdoing to their employer before taking their claims to the SEC are protected from job retaliation,...

QUEBEC, ONTARIO, March 30, 2016 – Phillips & Cohen partner Steve Hasegawa, a successful US whistleblower attorney, explains in an op-ed in the Montreal Gazette why whistleblower reward programs...

Article by Stephen S. Hasegawa published in The Montreal Gazette 3/30/16. “Both the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) and the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) looked at the same evidence...

Women face more overall pressure to stay silent and look the other way in the face of workplace wrongdoing than their male counterparts do, according to a new study by the Ethics & Compliance Initiative....

WASHINGTON, DC, March 14, 2016 – The National Law Journal named Phillips & Cohen LLP to its “Plaintiffs’ Hot List” for 2016, noting the firm shows great care for its whistleblower...

Companies that violated an anti-kickback law before 2010 weren’t on notice that they could be responsible for the results of their kickbacks — at least that’s what a recent court ruling from...

The Securities and Exchange Commission will pay whistleblower awards totaling nearly $2 million  to three individuals, the agency announced Tuesday. For what seems to be the first time, the SEC will pay...

Medicare, patients and private health insurers are wasting billions of dollars a year because of the way drug companies are packaging some of their products. The waste from could add up to roughly $3 billion...