Whistleblower Law Insights

Lincare, a maker of home oxygen and other respiratory equipment, will pay $10 million to settle charges that it illegally paid doctors to recommend the company to patients. Doctors were given tickets to...

State governments, Indian tribes and individual whistle blowers claim that big energy companies are understating the amount and quality of natural gas they pump on federal land, and paying less than what...

Although the settlement is not yet final, Medco Health Solutions, Inc. has announced it will settle allegations by the U.S. Dept. of Justice related to the company’s handling of prescriptions for...

The Office of the Inspector General for the Health & Human Services Administration found that approximately 91 percent of physical therapy billed by physicians in the first 6 months of 2002 was inappropriately...

Maximus Inc. disclosed that it has received a subpoena from the criminal division of the U.S. Dept. of Justice. The subpoena follows the filing of a False Claims Act lawsuit that claims the consulting...

A whistleblower suit unsealed in Leon County, Florida, charges that Corrections Corporation of America and GEO Group filed false bills at some of the state prisons they operate. The state of Florida declined...

Insight Public Sector has agreed to pay $1 million for misrepresenting itself as a small business in order to win a government contract. The company was known as Comark Government and Education Services,...

A lawsuit filed by whistleblowers under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act alleges that Boeing installed defective parts, supplied by AHF Ducommun, in civilian and military planes. The Washington...

Clark Atlanta University has agreed to pay $5 million to settle a federal whistleblower suit that claimed the university misused federal funds. Clark Atlanta had been acting as the manager for a consortium...

UHS of Delaware, Inc., a subsidiary of Universal Health Services, has settled a suit that alleged overcharging at a Georgia drug and alcohol treatment center. The company agreed to pay nearly $1.5 million...