Whistleblower Law Insights

A former Planned Parenthood executive has filed a False Claims Act suit alleging that the group’s California affiliates overcharged state and federal governments for birth-control pills. The Los...

Besler & Company, Inc., a New Jersey healthcare consulting firm, will pay the United States $2.875 million to settle allegations of fraud against the federal Medicare program, according to a March...

Cathedral Healthcare System Inc. will pay the United States $5.3 million to settle allegations that it defrauded the federal Medicare program, according to a March 4, 2008 press release from the Dept....

Yale-New Haven Hospital has agreed to pay $3.8 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act. In a March 7, 2008 press release, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said that the conduct...

A whistleblower lawsuit accuses Northrop Grumman’s Melbourne division of defrauding the federal government’s Joint STARS radar aircraft program. The suit alleges that through inflated labor...

The Dallas Independent School District has agreed to pay $316,000 to settle allegations that it misused federal grant money. The district received grant money from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,...

The federal government has decided to join a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that Tuomey regional hospital of Sumter, South Carolina, submitted false health care claims to Medicare and Medicaid. The surgeon...

The Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings on February 27 on proposed amendments to the False Claims Act. According to a report in the February 28, 2008 New York Times, both Democratic and Republican...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a federal whistleblower lawsuit on Feburary 26. The case, Allison Engine Co. Inc. v. United States, centers on the question of whether the False Claims Act...

HB 69, a bill to create a State Government Integrity Act, has been introduced in Louisiana. The state already has a Medical Assistance Programs Integrity Law, which allows qui tam suits by private citizens...