Whistleblower Law Insights

Healthcare and defense spending rank number 1 and 2 in the federal budget every year. It is not surprising that they would similarly take top-billing in fraud recoveries. As described on September...

Today, the world’s Fourth Annual Clean Air Day, we celebrate the United States’ historic investment in protecting our climate.  Just three weeks ago, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction...

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (“IRA”) has many ambitious goals. To take a step back from the climate precipice we’ve walked onto. To bring down the cost of pharmaceuticals for American seniors....

Last week, a case filed by a whistleblower who reported alleged fraud by the biotechnology company Biogen netted the largest recovery to date—$900 million—in a False Claims Act lawsuit in which the...

The IRS Whistleblower program is an important tool to detect fraud and abuse of the tax system. Since its inception in 2007, the IRS Whistleblower Office has paid out more than 2,500 awards to whistleblowers...

The SEC shows no signs of slowing down on taking enforcement actions against COVID-related fraud by public companies. On March 31, 2022, the SEC reached a settlement with healthcare software company SCWorx,...

In May, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged BNY Mellon Investment Adviser (“BNY Mellon”) with misrepresenting that certain mutual fund investments had undergone Environmental, Social, and...

The government, often with the help of whistleblowers, has had some success recently using the False Claims Act in enforcement actions against home health agencies in fraud cases. In March, a federal court...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a landmark rule that would require public companies to disclose information about climate-related material risks likely to impact their businesses...

Because some companies fail to disclose cybersecurity incidents as required or violate other Securities and Exchange Commission cybersecurity-related rules, whistleblowers with information about disclosure...