Whistleblower Law Insights

A recent ruling from a federal judge in Illinois has added to the minority view in a significant split in court opinions over whether employees who report suspicions of securities violations by their employers...

In the midst of the nationwide epidemic of opioid addiction and overdoses, states and local governments are turning to the courts in an effort to slow the overprescribing of opioid drugs and recover some...

A Kuwaiti contractor that supplied food for US military forces in Iraq, Iran and Jordan will pay $95 million to resolve a whistleblower lawsuit under the False Claims Act and plead guilty to misdemeanor...

Leave it to comedian John Oliver to examine what DaVita CEO Kent Thiry could have meant when he said if he ran Taco Bell franchises instead of a dialysis provider, he’d “be doing all the same stuff.”...

A New York False Claims Act whistleblower case involving alleged tax fraud by a hedge fund settled for $40 million, the largest such case in state history.

Two recent decisions from the Tax Court underscore the uncertainty that whistleblowers filing claims with the Internal Revenue Service face when it comes to preserving their anonymity. Although both cases...

Two Phillips & Cohen whistleblower attorneys wrote an article for New York University’s Compliance & Enforcement blog that examines the issue of who is a whistleblower as defined by the Dodd-Frank...

A recent decision by a federal court in California has helped clarify that whistleblowers can still stop harmful off-label marketing by pharma companies through “qui tam” lawsuits in certain instances...

A recent Appeals Court decision could force whistleblowers into lengthy and expensive litigation, even if a whistleblower and defendant reach a settlement agreement for a “qui tam” (whistleblower)...

For decades the False Claims Act and its “qui tam” whistleblower provision has been used to fight contractors who overcharge the government and engage in other types of fraud. But a recent settlement...