July 18, 2015
“New strategy, technology emerging in ongoing fight against healthcare fraud.”
Article by Peter Budetti published in Modern Healthcare, 7/18/15. “Healthcare fraud is a seemingly overwhelming problem. Large healthcare companies perpetrate systematic schemes, while corrupt practitioners...
July 17, 2015
“Supreme Court Says No Free Pass for Qui Tam Defendants in False Claims Act Cases.”
Article by Claire Sylvia and Colette Matzzie published on Law.com, 7/17/15. Phillips & Cohen’s Claire Sylvia and Colette Matzzie discuss the Supreme Court’s recent KBR ruling and its impact...
June 29, 2015
Fixing Health Care – Response by Whistleblower Attorney to New Yorker Article
Letter to the editor by Phillips & Cohen whistleblower attorney Peter Budetti, formerly a deputy administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in response to “Overkill,”...
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June 24, 2015
“Bloomberg BNA Q&A with Peter Budetti, Of Counsel to Phillips & Cohen and Former CMS Deputy Administrator.”
Peter Budetti in Bloomberg BNA, 6/24/15. “However, public sector resources are never going to be enough [to fight fraud against the government]. The brilliance of the Lincoln Law that set up the FCA...
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May 29, 2015
CEOs would pay attention to bonus clawbacks – Letter to the Editor
The Financial Times published the following letter to the editor from Erika Kelton, Phillips & Cohen partner, about the need for bonus clawbacks to help establish compliant corporate cultures. CEOs...
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May 27, 2015
“Whistleblowers dodge disaster in Supreme Court’s KBR decision.”
Colette Matzzie in Reuters, 5/27/15. That holding, said whistleblower lawyer Colette Matzzie of Phillips & Cohen, is a “tremendous victory.” It’s quite common in FCA litigation, she said, for...
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May 27, 2015
“5 Things GCs Need to Know About Whistleblowers.”
Colette Matzzie in Law360.com, 5/27/15. “We’ve found that employees are going to report internally anyway, but they have the additional incentive now because of the way the SEC reward factors are...
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May 14, 2015
“How do you make millions by doing good? Become a whistleblower.”
Claire Sylvia in The Guardian, 5/14/15. One of these veteran whistleblower law firms is Phillips & Cohen, founded in 1988 by John Phillips . Phillips worked closely with Congress to pass the False...
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May 12, 2015
“Arrest of U.K Trader Puts a Spotlight on Whistle-Blowers.”
Erika Kelton in Institutional Investor, 5/12/15. Anonymity has been central to the successes that have occurred so far, according to Erika Kelton, a partner at Phillips & Cohen in San Francisco and...
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April 14, 2015
“Confidentiality Agreements Must Not Protect Crimes.”
Article by Erika A. Kelton and Stephen S. Hasegawa published in The Wall Street Journal, 4/14/15. “For more than 25 years we have seen companies make overblown claims of trade secrets and business...