Whistleblower Law Insights

The University of Phoenix, the nation’s largest vocational school chain, asked a federal judge in Sacramento, California, to dismiss a suit brought against it under the qui tam provisions of the...

The U.S. Dept. of Justice has joined a whistleblower lawsuit that charges that ATK Thiokol Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Alliant Techsystems, Inc., knowingly sold the U.S. military flares that could...

EGL, Inc. of Houston, Texas, has paid the United States $300,000 to settle allegations that the company’s local agent in Kuwait overcharged the military for rental charges on shipping containers to Iraq....

Alan Grayson, the attorney of record for plaintiffs who accuse KBR of defrauding the government in Iraq War contracts, testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime Terrorism and Homeland...

The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas announced that the Harris County Hospital District will pay $15,449,126 to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting reimbursement...

Nearly half of the payments Medicare made for Part B mental health services in 2003 didn’t meet Medicare requirements, the Office of Inspector General for Health and Human Services has found. As...

The Kansas City, Missouri School District (KCMSD) has agreed to relinquish over $13.6 million in claims for federal funds and to pay the United States $66,000 to resolve fraud allegations about the school...

The Scooter Store Inc. will pay the federal government $4 million and give up pending Medicare reimbursement claims worth $13 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit and other government charges that...

Purdue Pharma, the maker of the painkiller OxyContin, has agreed to pay $19.5 million to settle off-label marketing claims and to stop illegal marketing practices that lead to greater abuse of the highly...

Thirty-eight people have been arrested in the first phase of a targeted criminal, civil and administrative effort against individuals and health care companies that fraudulently bill the Medicare program,...