Whistleblower Law Insights

The Inspector General for the U.S. Dept. of the Interior has issued a report on problems in the oil and gas royalty programs. The report, issued on September 17, 2007, is titled Minerals Management Service:...

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company will pay over $515 million to resolve charges of illegal drug marketing and pricing practices, according to a U.S. Dept. of Justice press release dated September 28, 2007....

Four of the largest artificial joint manufacturers have agreed to pay a total of $310 million in penalties to settle federal accusations that they used fake consulting agreements and other tactics to get...

A former Novation employee has filed a whistleblower suit alleging that the hospital group purchasing organization defrauded government health plans. Group purchasing organizations negotiate contracts...

Christi Sulzbach, the former Tenet general counsel, has been sued under the federal False Claims Act for her role in the hospital chain’s fraud. According to an article in the September 19, 2007...

Sun Microsystems, a major supplier of technology to the federal government, has canceled its contract with the General Services Administration. According to a September 15, 2007 article in the Washington...

New York State has filed its first suit under the state’s recently enacted False Claims Act. The suit, filed jointly by the state and New York City on September 17, 2007, accuses Merck of misrepresenting...

Sens. Chuck Grassley and Dick Durbin have introduced legislation to strengthen the False Claims Act, the government’s main weapon in combatting fraud against federal programs. Recent federal court...

A former employee of Putnam Investments, who was a key figure in state and federal probes of the company, will not receive a share of the $193.5 million settlement, a Massachusetts state appeals court...

Defense contractors are employing top law firms to assist them in navigating lawsuits and federal investigations into alleged war profiteering and fraud in Iraq. According to an article in the September...