Month: December 2016

The power individual IRS agents have over the decision to grant whistleblower awards is one of the key “inadequacies” of the IRS’s lackluster whistleblower program, according to Phillips & Cohen...

Michael Lissack, a former investment banker for Smith Barney, was represented by Phillips & Cohen attorneys in a qui tam lawsuit he filed against more than 20 Wall Street banking firms. He alleged...

Phillips & Cohen represented Robert McCaslin, a hospital billing department employee, in a qui tam lawsuit against his former employer, Harris County Hospital District of Houston, Texas, for Medicare...

Phillips & Cohen LLP represented John Kopchinski in a qui tam lawsuit against Pfizer Inc. that alleged the company was engaged in the off-label marketing of Bextra, a painkiller, in dangerous doses...

James F. Alderson, a client of Phillips & Cohen, was a financial officer with a Montana hospital when he was told that the hospital’s management company routinely filed fraudulent cost reports with...

Phillips & Cohen represented GlaxoSmithKline whistleblowers Matthew Burke and his co-relator in a qui tam case against GlaxoSmithKline that helped win a record-setting settlement of $3 billion from...

Dr. Paul Michelson is an eye surgeon whom Phillips & Cohen attorneys represented in a False Claims Act lawsuit against his former employer, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, and a former colleague....

Emil Stache, whom Phillips & Cohen attorneys represented in his qui tam case, was a manager for Teledyne Relays in California. A Vietnam veteran, he was concerned that the company was selling unreliable...

Judith King, a registered nurse, was a heart transplant coordinator at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego. Phillips & Cohen brought a qui tam lawsuit against her employer on her behalf, alleging...

Phillips & Cohen represented Julie Darity in a qui tam lawsuit against her former employer C.R. Bard Inc. that alleged the company was offering illegal kickbacks to entice doctors and hospitals to...