Whistleblower Law Insights

Walnut Hill Care Center of New Brtiain, Connecticut, will pay the U.S. government $222,419 to resolve charges it hired a nurse without checking to see her license had been revoked, the New Britain Herald...

Kendall Dye, an engineer with ATK Thiokol, was astonished when he discovered that the company was knowingly supplying dangerously unsafe flares to the United States military, the New York Times reported...

EGL Inc. has agreed to pay the federal government $750,000 to resolve allegations that the company violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to employees of KBR, the Justice Department announced....

St. Joseph Healthcare System Inc. has agreed to pay the federal government $1.75 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit alleging the hospital defrauded Medicare by improperly inflating its reimbursement...

The U.S. Dept. of Justice announced on Sept. 29 that biopharmaceutical company Cephalon will enter a criminal plea and pay $425 million to resolve claims that it marketed three drugs for uses not approved...

Cooper University Hospital in Camden, N.J., has agreed to pay the United States $3.85 million to settle allegations that it defrauded Medicare, the Justice Department announced on September 24, 2008. The...

New York’s Staten Island University Hospital will pay $88.9 million to settle allegations it had defrauded Medicare, Medicaid and an insurance program covering the military. According to the U.S....

McClatchy newspapers reports that the U.S. Attorney in Colorado was blocked from supporting a whistleblower suit against Kerr-McGee. U.S. Attorney Troy Eid said that senior Justice Dept. officials overruled...

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced a $28 million civil settlement with Abbott Laboratories Inc. The settlement resolves the state’s claims that the drug manufacturer falsely reported drug prices...

The Denver Post reports that the 10th Circuit has reversed a lower court dismissal of a $7.6 million jury verdict against Kerr-McGee. The suit, brought by a former Minerals Management Service auditor,...