Whistleblower Law Insights

Lester E. Cox Medical Centers of Springfield, Missouri, has agreed to pay the United States $60 million to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Statute,...

An article in the Washington Post quotes sources who say that the Justice Department doesn’t have the resources to handle the volume of whistleblower suits being filed. The 300 to 400 whistleblower...

InterDent, Inc., InterDent Service Corporation and Dedicated Dental Systems Corporation have paid the United States $377,470 to resolve allegations of fraud against Medi-Cal’s dental program, Denti-Cal....

Western Placer Unified School District has joined a qui tam lawsuit against the architect and builder of one of its middle schools. The suit alleges that NTD-Stichler and Edge Development inappropriately...

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power has filed a False Claims Act suit against a construction and engineering firm, accusing it of defrauding the utility. The suit, filed in federal court in Los...

The federal government expects to recover $2.2 billion for the first half of 2008, resulting from efforts to reduce waste, fraud and abuse in federal health programs. The Dept. of Health and Human Services...

Amendments to the False Claims Act were the subject of hearings by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary. Among the witnesses at the June 19 hearings on HR 4854 were qui tam attorneys...

The Washington Post says that experts are concerned about the growing problem of health care fraud, which is estimated to cost taxpayers over $60 billion each year. The article notes that Medicare automatically...

The Justice Department is suing Honeywell International Inc. for knowingly selling defective material for use in bulletproof vests. The suit claims that Honeywell knew that the ballistic material called...

Home Hospice of North Texas will pay the U.S. a total of $500,000 to resolve civil False Claims Act allegations. The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas had alleged that the company and its...