Jacob Fischler

CHARLESTON, SC, Feb. 1, 2018 – A federal jury in South Carolina has found the former CEO of a medical testing lab and two owners of the lab’s marketing partner liable under the federal False Claims...

360Dx, part of the GenomeWeb network, quoted Phillips & Cohen partner Peter Chatfield on the success of a jury trial that resulted from a whistleblower lawsuit, where one of the whistleblowers was...

Phillips & Cohen partner Peter Chatfield spoke with the Richmond Times-Dispatch after a jury found former Health Diagnostic Laboratory CEO Tonya Mallory and the owner’s of HDL’s former...

The California False Claims Act, the oldest state false claims “qui tam” statute modeled on the federal False Claims Act, has shown once again its strength and efficacy in rooting out wrongdoing, this...

Phillips & Cohen partner Peter Chatfield was quoted in Bloomberg BNA about a recent decision in a whistleblower lawsuit involving alleged Medicare fraud. He analyzed what a judge got wrong in his...

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, Jan. 9, 2018 – Phillips & Cohen LLP is pleased to announce that Edward H. Arens has been named a partner at the firm, which focuses exclusively on representing whistleblowers....

Phillips & Cohen co-founder John Phillips spoke with the The Wall Street Journal in a Q&A about the success and future of the False Claims Act and its “qui tam” whistleblower provisions....

Whistleblowers have once again proven to be the government’s strongest weapon in the fight against fraud. Of the $3.7 billion recovered by the federal government in fiscal year 2017 through False Claims...

Are Whistleblower Laws Federal or State? In the US, whistleblower laws exist at both the federal and state levels. The False Claims Act and the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 are examples of federal...

Whistleblowers file many types of qui tam cases – ranging from healthcare fraud cases to defense fraud cases to other types of fraud – to expose and stop fraud that puts the health and wellbeing of...