Whistleblower Law Insights

A whistleblower lawsuit accuses W.W. Grainger Inc., an international distributor of maintenance products and hand tools, of repeatedly overcharging the U.S. government. Details of the suit were set out...

Merck and Co. has agreed to pay more than $650 million to settle claims that it overcharged Medicaid programs for four drugs, including Vioxx and Zocor, and to resolve allegations of improper marketing...

Sioux Manufacturing of Fort Totten, North Dakota, will pay $2 million to settle a suit alleging that the helmets it supplied to the military were inadequate. The suit, originally brought under the whistleblower...

The buyer of Bayonne Medical Center will pay $2.5 million to settle allegations of Medicare fraud, the U.S. Dept. of Justice announced on February 4, 2008 The hospital is currently in bankruptcy and its...

The federal government has intervened in two whistleblower lawsuits alleging Medicare fraud against three New Jersey hospitals, according to an AP story published January 25, 2008 in Forbes. The hospitals...

Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff (B/PB) and design consultants will pay the United States and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts a total of $458 million to settle allegations of “gross failures”...

Lafayette General Medical Center will pay $1.9 million to settle allegations that it defrauded federal and state health plans by billing for unnecessary cardiology procedures, according to the January...

Governor John Corzine signed the New Jesrsey False Claims Act on January 14, 2008, according to a press release on the governor’s site. The law, which will take effect 60 days after the signing,...

The New Jersey Senate has passed a state False Claims Act, according to a January 7, 2008 article at PolitickerNJ.com. The bill, sponsored by Senators John H. Adler and Joseph F. Vitale, will now go to...

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley announced that the A&M Limosine Service Co. will pay $65,000 to resolve charges it underpaid tolls for airport tunnels, according to a January 3, 2008...