Whistleblower Law Insights

Whistleblowers helped the federal government recover more than $3.5 billion from civil cases involving fraud and false claims in fiscal year 2015. Qui tam cases filed under the False Claims Act proved...

The Securities and Exchange Commission is starting to take a closer look at rapidly growing private companies and the brokerage firms who help them trade their private stock almost entirely away from the...

An internal audit into the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s whistleblower program will be restarted after it took a seat to other priorities last year, according to a report from the agency’s...

Business arrangements between neuromonitoring companies and surgeons are raising concerns because of the impact those deals have on healthcare bills, according to a report from the Austin American-Statesman....

Still reeling from a massive bribery scandal that cost the government tens of millions of dollars, the US Navy is facing a new lawsuit that once again calls their oversight of contractors into question....

HCA has reached a settlement in yet another Medicare fraud billing case brought by whistleblowers. The Justice Department, along with the state of Florida, announced last week that HCA Holdings Inc. will...

The SEC released its annual report on its Whistleblower Award Program, which showed whistleblower tips continued to increase in 2015. There were nearly 4,000 tips from 61 different countries in 2015, leading...

The Department of Justice and the Wisconsin Attorney General announced Wednesday that they reached an agreement to settle three separate False Claims Act lawsuits against Deaconess Home Health for $3.7...

Members of Congress and prosecutors have been raising the question of whether energy companies misled the public and their investors about the risks of climate change. Last month, House Democrats Ted Lieu...

The Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund awarded Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) the “Honest Abe Integrity in Government” award this week for his work defending whistleblowers and taxpayer funds....