Phillips & Cohen

A whistleblower suit unsealed in Leon County, Florida, charges that Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group filed false bills at some of the state prisons they operate. The state of Florida declined...

Insight Public Sector has agreed to pay $1 million for misrepresenting itself as a small business in order to win a government contract. The company was known as Comark Government and Education Services,...

A lawsuit filed by whistleblowers under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act alleges that Boeing installed defective parts, supplied by AHF Ducommun, in civilian and military planes. The Washington...

Clark Atlanta University has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a federal whistleblower suit that claimed the university misused federal funds. Clark Atlanta had been acting as the manager for a consortium...

UHS of Delaware, Inc., a subsidiary of Universal Health Services, has settled a suit that alleged overcharging at a Georgia drug and alcohol treatment center. The company agreed to pay nearly $1.5 million...

Sequel Contractors, a paving company, and JHTM & Associates, the project manager for Orange County’s John Wayne Airport, have agreed to pay $2.6 million to settle a whistleblower suit. The suit...

A Senate subcommittee held hearings on March 28, 2006 on the Center for Medicare and Medicaids Services’ program to control Medicaid fraud at both the state and federal levels. The U.S. Senate Committee...

Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly has sent demand letters to contractors involved in the Boston area highway project known as the Big Dig. In the letters the office demands $108 million in...

Cell Therapeutics disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that a private party has made claims against it under seal on behalf of the government. This is the language frequently...

Conservative members of Canada’s Parliament are considering a law based on the United States’ False Claims Act. The U.S. law allows a whistleblowers who suspects fraud against the government...