Whistleblower Law Insights

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...

Erin Brockovich’s lawsuit against Fresno-based Community Medical Centers cannot proceed as a qui tam action, a federal judge has ruled. Brockovich, the legal assistant whose life was portrayed in...

A patient accounts representative who blew the whistle on improper billing practices at the Harris County Hospital District in Texas will receive nearly $2.8 million for his role in uncovering the improprieties....

The United States Supreme Court ruled on March 27 that the whistleblower who exposed fraud at a former nuclear weapons plant is not entitled to a relator’s share. James Stone stood to collect $1...

HealthSouth Corp. and three physicians who were partners in Seacoast Trust have agreed to pay more that $1 million to resolve claims that they violated the False Claims Act. The government had alleged...

Alameda County has moved to dismiss a lawsuit, brought under the qui tam provisions of the California state False Claims Act, that alleges fraud, conspiracy and financial misconduct at the county’s...

Ajax Paving Industries, Inc. and Dan’s Excavating Inc. have agreed to pay the federal government $11.75 million to resolve Flase Claims Act and administrative claims against them. The government...

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson signed a “Fraud Against Taxpayers Act” on March 15. The act, whose effective date is July 1, 2007, allows the attorney general to file a civil lawsuit on...

Raritan Bay Medical Center has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal government to allegations filed in three separate federal lawsuits brought by whistleblowers under the federal...