Whistleblower Law Insights

Cell Therapeutics, a Seattle-based biotech start-up, has agreed to pay $10.5 million to settle charges that it illegally marketed the anti-cancer prescription drug Trisonex for uses that had not received...

The Georgia Senate has passed HB 551, the State Medicaid False Claims Act. The bill, introduced by Rep. Edward Lindsey of Atlanta, had already been passed by the Georgia House. If it is enacted, Georgia...

The United States has filed a motion in the District of Colorado, requesting that the court stay its dismissal of a whistleblower suit and allow the government time to decide whether it will intervene....

The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a bill that would impose stiff fines and prison sentences on war profiteers. The bill, S.119, now goes to the Senate for consideration. It provides that anyone...

The federal government has filed a False Claims Act suit against the business arm of a Wisconsin tribe. The suit against Menominee Tribal Enterprises alleges that MTE falsely billed the Bureau of Indian...

Environmental Management, Inc., an Oklahoma-based environmental clean-up company, has agreed to pay as much as $1 million to settle charges it defrauded the federal government. The suit, which began as...

A federal judge has overturned a jury’s verdict in favor of an Interior Department whistle-blower. The whistle-blower, who was an auditor at the department, charged that the Kerr-McGee Corporation cheated...

Two Pfizer subsidiaries, Pharmacia & Upjohn Company, Inc. and Pharmacia & Upjohn Company LLC, have settled criminal and civil charges related to the promotion of their human growth hormone product,...

The budget bill enacted in New York State includes a state False Claims Act. Governor Eliot Spitzer had favored a state False Claims Act while he was state attorney general. The new law has qui tam provisions,...

Cabrini Medical Center has agreed to pay $3.4 million to resolve civil charges that it defrauded the New York State Medicaid Program. The suit, which began as a whistleblower suit brought under the qui...