Whistleblower Law Insights

Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center, of Lafayette, Louisiana, has agreed to pay $3.8 million to settle allegations that a cardiologist charged the government for unnecessary procedures. The suit...

University Hospitals Health System has agreed to pay approximately $14 million to settle allegations that its doctors made improper referrals involving Medicare cases. The suit was begun as a whistleblower...

A whistleblower who alleged that over $100 million in federal funds were improperly used to support a container terminal at the Port of Los Angeles cannot proceed with his suit. Stanley Mosley filed his...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that a whistleblower need not provide the government with information pertaining to the fraud allegations prior to the information’s public disclosure....

Age Refining of San Antonio, Texas, and its former affiliate, Age Transportation, will pay the United States $9 million to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit. The settlement resolves allegations that Age...

EGL Inc., a subcontractor for Kellogg Brown and Root, has agreed to pay $4 million to settle allegations that it inflated invoices for military cargo shipments to Iraq The invoices were for shipments of...

The New York Times (subscription required) reported on August 1, 2006 that an objection to Medtronic’s settlement of illegal kickback allegations has been filed by a whistle-blower who was excluded...

An Associated Press report carried by the Detroit Free Press on July 22, 2006 says that former Pentagon officials have been accused of conspiring to help Custer Battles obtain Iraq rebuilding contracts,...

AMS, a computer vendor formerly known as American Management Systems, has agreed to pay $1.53 million to resolve charges that it overbilled the Ohio Department of Human Services. The suit, originally brought...

General Electric Co. and two of its subcontractors have paid $11.5 million to settle a qui tam lawsuit that alleged that GE sold defective engine parts to the U.S. military. The parts were used in military...