Whistleblower Law Insights

Four auditors who monitor leases for oil and gas on federal property say the Interior Department blocked their efforts to pursue more than $30 million in fraudulent underpayments of royalties for oil produced...

The U.S. Dept. of Justice has joined a whistleblower lawsuit that accuses Merck’s U.S. generic-drug unit, Dey, of overcharging Medicaid and Medicare. The government’s complaint alleges that Dey...

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated a whistle blower suit against the University of Phoenix. The suit, brought under the qui tam provisions of the federal False Claims Act, alleges that school...

The California Supreme Court ruled unanimously that public agencies, such as cities and school districts, can’t sue as whistle-blowers under the California state False Claims Act, nor can they be...

Schering-Plough and a subsidiary have agreed to pay a total of $435,000,000 to resolve civil and criminal charges related to illegal sales and marketing programs for its drugs Temodar and Intron A, and...

Legislation that would increase the public’s access to government contract information has been blocked by a secret hold placed on it by an unidentified senator. S. 2590, the Federal Funding Accountability...

The Minority Office of the House Committee on Government Reform has issued a report, “Waste, Fraud and Abuse in Hurricane Katrina Contracts.” The Minority Office’s website says, ”...

The Office of the Inspector general of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services has issued guidelines for evaluating state false claims acts. The guidelines, published in the August 21, 2006 issue of...

Beverly Enterprises Inc. has agreed to pay $20 million to the federal government and the state of California to resolve allegations that its former subsidiary, MK Medical, submitted false claims to Medicare...

A federal judge has thrown out a jury verdict against Iraq defense contractor Custer Battles, saying that the False Claims Act did not apply. In March 2006 a jury had found that the company and two of...