Whistleblower Law Insights

A whistleblower lawsuit accuses Wackenhut Corp. of billing Miami-Dade County for 69,000 hours of security work that the company’s employees were never paid for. The Miami Herald reported on April...

Proposed amendments to the False Claims Act were reported favorably out of the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 3, according to Federal Times. The bill, S 2041, sponsored by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa,...

The U.S. Dept. of Justice has joined a whistleblower suit that alleges fraud by Christ Hospital and Ohio Heart and Vascular Center, the Cincinnati area’s largest cardiology practice. The suit, filed...

An April 1, 2008 article in the New York Times says that whistleblowers have filed suits accusing insurers of abusing the Social Security Administration. Disability insurers can reduce payments to clients...

Otsuka American Pharmaceutical Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Japanese pharmaceutical manufacturer Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., will pay more than $4 million to resolve allegations that it marketed Abilify,...

A group of former insurance adjusters, known as the Branch Consultants LLC, have asked a federal appeals court to reinstate their False Claims Act suit, according to a March 27, 2008 article in the Times-Picayune....

According to an article in the March 19, 2008 issue of the Wall Street Journal, government regulators are increasing their scrutiny of Medicare and Medicaid managed-care providers. The managed-care industry...

Huntington Valley Industries of California and Bayjet, Inc. of new mexico have agrees to pay over $45,000 to settle allegations that they defrauded the Air Force. The False Claims Act suit alleged that...

Gulshan Sultan, M.D., will pay $1.1 million to resolve allegations that she violated the Federal False Claims Act and the Tennessee Medicaid False Claims Act. The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District...

CVS Caremark Corp. has agreed to pay $36.7 million to settle claims it improperly switched patients from the tablet version of the prescription drug Ranitidine (generic Zantac) to a more expensive capsule...