Whistleblower Law Insights

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...

Patrick Chan, an Arkansan neurosurgeon, pleaded guilty to receiving kickbacks from a medical supply saleswoman in exchange for performing surgeries using her company’s supplies. Chan also settled...

Gohmann Asphalt of Clarksville, Ind., will pay $8.2 million to settle allegations that the company falsified tests on asphalt samples on roads and highways in Kentucky and Indiana. A former employee brought...

Saint Joseph’s Hospital of Atlanta Inc. and Saint Joseph’s Health System Inc. have agreed to pay $26 million to settle allegations that they defrauded Medicare. The suit, which originated as...

A whistleblower suit charges that Pfizer defrauded the government by illegally promoting off-label uses of Lipitor, according to the Wall Street Journal on December 20, 2007. The lawsuit, filed in 2004...

Hansen Building Materials has agreed to pay the state of California $42.2 million to settle allegations that the company stole 2 million cubic feet of sand. It was then sold to construction companies to...

Warren Hospital in Phillipsburg, N.J., will pay the United States $7.5 million to settle allegations that it defrauded Medicare. The suit, which originated as a whistleblower suit under the qui tam provisions...