Whistleblower Law Insights

Oregon Imaging Center, a Eugene, radiology laboratory, has paid $510,000 to settle claims that it billed Medicare and Medicaid for radiology tests not ordered by treating physicians. This does not appear...

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that an administrative audit, report or investigation prepared by a state entity qualifies as a public disclosure for purposes of barring...

The United States Supreme Court heard arguments on December 5 in a case that pivots on a whistleblower’s standing to bring a False Claims Act suit when there has been a public disclosure of the information...

The December 3, 2006 issue of the New York Times includes a profile of Bobby L. Maxwell, the Interior Department auditor who filed a whistleblower suit alleging that Kerr-McGee, a major oil company, cheated...

Larkin Community Hospital in Miami and its current and former owners have paid $15.4 million to settle federal and Florida civil health care fraud claims against them. The Justice Department filed a False...

Amerigroup, a managed care provider, is seeking to reduce the damages awarded by a jury last month. The jury had found that Amerigroup discriminated against pregnant women in order to avoid paying for...

KRB, a subsidiary of Halliburton, has agreed to pay the government $8 million to resolve accusations of overbilling related to the firm’s work for the Army in the Balkans, the Justice Department...

The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma announced that Integris Baptist Medical Center, Inc. and Integris Health, Inc. have agreed to pay the United States $12.2 million to resolve allegations...

The United States Dept. of Justice recovered a record $3.1 billion in settlements and judgments in cases involving fraud against the government in the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006. This total...

A whistleblower suit alleging fraud by contractors hired to clean up a Cold War-era uranium enrichment plant was unsealed by a federal court in Ohio. The suit accuses Bechtel-Jacobs Co. and Safety and...