Month: April 2016

With the House’s landslide 410-2 vote on Wednesday, both chambers of Congress have now passed a bill that contains vital new legal protections for whistleblowers. Suing a whistleblower for “stealing”...

UPDATE: The Taxpayer Protection Act of 2016 was enacted and includes anti-retaliation protection for tax whistleblowers and requirements for improved communication between the IRS and whistleblowers. April...

Jeffrey Dickstein in FierceHealthPayer, 4/27/16. “The DOJ has often looked at medical charges and used medical experts, but this was one of the largest endeavors,” says Jeffrey Dickstein, a former...

A bill in the Alabama Senate that would give whistleblowers the ability to sue companies for alleged Medicaid fraud just got an important new ally. Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange made a strong...

WASHINGTON, DC, April 19, 2016 – A whistleblower case the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear today – Universal Health Services Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar – could have a far-reaching...

A whistleblower case the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear today – Universal Health Services Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar – could have a far-reaching impact on healthcare fraud enforcement...

WASHINGTON, DC, April 18, 2016 – Whistleblower lawyers Mary Louise Cohen, Erika A. Kelton and Colette G. Matzzie – all partners at Phillips & Cohen LLP – were named to Lawdragon’s...

The whistleblower case that resulted in more than 500 hospitals in 43 states settling charges alleging they performed medically unnecessary cardiac procedures was the focus of a conference panel discussion...

The release of the so-called Panama Papers by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, based on 2.6 terabytes of data provided by an anonymous whistleblower, has revealed some of the...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) levied a $2.69 million fine this week on two traders from the United Arab Emirates for “spoofing” the gold and silver futures markets. The two traders,...