Whistleblower Law Insights

The government has ramped up its enforcement of cybersecurity standards that are required of government contractors with the launch of its Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative – and whistleblowers are likely...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued a $200 million whistleblower award this week that is the largest whistleblower payout ever by the CFTC under its Dodd-Frank whistleblower program and is...

Whistleblowers have filed in recent years a number of “qui tam” cases against Medicare Advantage companies alleging risk-adjustment fraud – a practice that drives a major portion of improper payments...

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is pushing Commodity Futures Trading Commission nominees to commit to revitalizing the CFTC’s whistleblower program, which is hurting due to budgetary constraints. In...

For fiscal year 2021, $1.2 trillion was allocated to Medicare (which in 2019 covered more than 58 million people). By 2028, Medicare expenditures are projected to reach $1.56 trillion (to cover approximately...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has launched probes into the practices of multiple crypto lending platforms, including DeFi platforms developed by Coinbase Global and Uniswap Labs, reinforcing...

Medical errors are the eighth leading cause of death in the United States. More people die from medical errors than from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS. The estimated annual cost of additional...

Sutter Health, northern California’s largest hospital system, is paying $90 million to settle a whistleblower’s qui tam lawsuit that alleged Sutter engaged in Medicare Advantage fraud to inflate its...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission hit an important milestone today, with two whistleblower awards that pushed the total of SEC whistleblower rewards since 2012 to over $1 billion, affirming the...

September 11, 2001 ushered in a new era of U.S. defense spending, marked by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Over the last 20 years, the United States has spent more than $6.4 trillion on those wars....