Whistleblower Law Insights

Aggregate Industries NE Inc., has pleaded guilty to fraud for supplying substandard concrete on the Big Dig and will pay $50 million to settle the case. $42 million will go to settle a civil investigation...

A whistleblower suit alleging that insurance companies, adjusters and engineering firms defrauded the federal government has been unsealed. The suit was brought by two adjusters who claim the companies...

A whistleblower suit against Chapman University is scheduled to go to trial this November. The suit alleges that the school, which received federal and state aid, misrepresented the number of hours students...

Oakland City University will pay a $5.3 million to settle allegations that it paid incentives to admissions recruiters and failed to report those payments to the federal government. Those payments violated...

The federal government announced that it has reached a deferred prosecution agreement with Maximus Inc. that requires the company to pay $30.5 million. Maximus has also agreed to enter into a corporate...

A California state appeals court has reinstated a whistleblower suit that claimed Hewlett-Packard sold defective medical monitoring devices through its spin-off company, Agilent Technologies. A trial court...

Akal Security Inc. will pay the United States $18 million to resolve allegations that it violated the terms of its contract to provide trained civilian guards at eight U.S. Army bases. Some of the guards...

In a suit that grew out of a whistleblower complaint, Orphan Medical Inc. pleaded guilty in federal court to charges that it illegally promoted Xyrem, commonly known as a “date rape” drug....

Moritz Embroidery Works has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a False Claims Act suit that alleged violations of the Buy American Act. The company won a contract to supply the Dept. of Defense with U.S....

Mellon Bank has agreed to pay $16.5 million to settle claims brought under the False Claims Act that it destroyed thousands of tax returns and tax payment checks to avoid penalties for failing to meet...