Whistleblower Law Insights

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...

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...