Whistleblower Law Insights

With the House’s landslide 410-2 vote on Wednesday, both chambers of Congress have now passed a bill that contains vital new legal protections for whistleblowers. Suing a whistleblower for “stealing”...

A bill in the Alabama Senate that would give whistleblowers the ability to sue companies for alleged Medicaid fraud just got an important new ally. Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange made a strong...

A whistleblower case the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear today – Universal Health Services Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar – could have a far-reaching impact on healthcare fraud enforcement...

The whistleblower case that resulted in more than 500 hospitals in 43 states settling charges alleging they performed medically unnecessary cardiac procedures was the focus of a conference panel discussion...

The release of the so-called Panama Papers by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, based on 2.6 terabytes of data provided by an anonymous whistleblower, has revealed some of the...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) levied a $2.69 million fine this week on two traders from the United Arab Emirates for “spoofing” the gold and silver futures markets. The two traders,...

Pharmaceutical companies are no strangers to federal and state investigations for fraud, but a new study shows just how often Big Pharma gets caught skirting the law. The study by Public Citizen, found...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced today it will pay out a record $10 million whistleblower reward, a strong sign for the future of the young whistleblower program. The CFTC whistleblower...

The Securities and Exchange Commission has reaffirmed its position that whistleblowers who report wrongdoing to their employer before taking their claims to the SEC are protected from job retaliation,...

Women face more overall pressure to stay silent and look the other way in the face of workplace wrongdoing than their male counterparts do, according to a new study by the Ethics & Compliance Initiative....