Whistleblower Law Insights

The Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and Attorney General Eric Holder, revealed a new public-private partnership to crack down on health care fraud yesterday.  The...

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner defended his response to concerns about Libor manipulation in 2008 – when he served as president of the New York Federal Reserve – before  Congress...

Eduardo Porter of the New York Times wrote an insightful article examining whether corporate corruption and fraud have increased in recent years. (See “The Spreading Scourge of Corporate Corruption.”)...

Two whistleblowers represented by Phillips & Cohen provided critical evidence that helped launch massive government investigations into Glaxosmithkline’s marketing practices, and resulted in...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has announced that Optiver Holding BV, a Dutch company, two U.S. subsidiaries and several officers will pay $14 million to settle allegations of manipulating the...

In a recent Forbes blog post, Phillips & Cohen attorney Erika Kelton tells of students who did an off-the-cuff cost/benefit analysis of Medicaid fraud and decided it might be a good way to get rich...

Washington State Governor Christine Gregoire has signed a Medicaid fraud false claims act. The act includes a qui tam provision, which will allow private citizens who discover fraud involving the state’s...

Mandatory percentage awards, protection of whistleblowers’ identities, and encouragement of reporting through internal compliance programs are among the elements of a successful whistleblower program...

New York State had been off to a good start in cracking down on health care fraud. The New York Times reports that efforts under former Gov. George Pataki resulted in $1.5 billion in overpayments being...

The Dept. of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General has developed a Compliance 101 page to help health care providers, practitioners, and suppliers understand the health care fraud and...