Whistleblower Law Insights

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...

While the director of the IRS Whistleblower Office has given his program good reviews in the latest annual report about the IRS whistleblower program, the reality isn’t so positive. In the FY2016 annual...

Medical device company Biomet will once again pay tens of millions of dollars to settle violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. In 2012, Biomet agreed to pay more than $22 million to settle allegations...

A whistleblower helped uncover a scheme by a Missouri-based government contractor where the company not only allegedly overcharged the government for its products, but also allegedly violated country of...

The Securities and Exchange Commission took significant actions in FY2016 that made it a “historic” year for the SEC whistleblower program, according to a new report from the agency. The SEC paid out...

Peter Budetti, a former top US government official who is Of Counsel to Phillips & Cohen LLP, recently spoke in Vienna at an event hosted by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe...

Regulators around the world are starting to recognize the value whistleblowers can bring to enforcement measures, offering incentives from protection to financial rewards to those who come forward with...