Whistleblower Law Insights

Under the 2005 Deficit Reduction Act states were given a financial incentive to enact false claims acts that targeted Medicaid fraud. If a state false claims act meets certain requirements, the state is...

Two companies have paid over $16.5 million to resolve whistleblower allegations that they systematically overcharged the US government for desktop telephone services. Avaya Inc. paid over $13 million to...

Forest Pharmaceuticals has been ordered to pay a criminal fine of $150 million and forfeit assets of $14 million, resulting from their guilty plea last year. In November of 2010, the drug company admitted...

The Government Accountability Office has released its list of government agencies at the highest risk for fraud and other costly abuses. While some agencies have been removed from the list due to improvements,...

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), has announced his intention to focus on fraud enforcement in a hearing that will be held on January 26. The hearing, entitled “Protecting...

In an unfolding whistleblower case, the federal government has accused New York City of overbilling Medicaid by “at least tens of millions of dollars.” The complaint alleges excessive and improper...

Fastenal Company, a national hardware distributor, has agreed to pay $6.25 million to settle allegations that it violated terms related to a contract with the US General Services Administration (GSA)....

A recent article in The Wall Street Journal suggests that the confidentiality of doctors’ Medicare billing practices has allowed for instances of enormous fraud and abuse to go unchecked. The article...

Dey, a pharmaceutical manufacturer, has become the fourth drug maker this month to settle allegations involving reporting false and inflated drug prices. Payment from the Medicare and Medicaid programs...

December has been a significant month in terms of False Claims Act recoveries from pharmaceutical companies. Three drug makers – Abbott Laboratories Inc., Roxane Laboratories Inc. and B. Braun Medical...