Whistleblower Law Insights

Sequel Contractors, a paving company, and JHTM & Associates, the project manager for Orange County’s John Wayne Airport, have agreed to pay $2.6 million to settle a whistleblower suit. The suit...

A Senate subcommittee held hearings on March 28, 2006 on the Center for Medicare and Medicaids Services’ program to control Medicaid fraud at both the state and federal levels. The U.S. Senate Committee...

Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly has sent demand letters to contractors involved in the Boston area highway project known as the Big Dig. In the letters the office demands $108 million in...

Cell Therapeutics disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that a private party has made claims against it under seal on behalf of the government. This is the language frequently...

Conservative members of Canada’s Parliament are considering a law based on the United States’ False Claims Act. The U.S. law allows a whistleblowers who suspects fraud against the government...

The U.S. Government Accountability Office has posted on its website a copy of the briefing they prepared for Congress on False Claims Act litigation. The report shows that health care and procurement fraud...

A whistle-blower case against defense contractor Custer Battles has resulted in a jury verdict against the company and its owners. The suit, brought under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act,...

The Federal government has filed a motion to intervene in a whistleblower suit against Mario Gabelli and his firm. The suit, brought under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act, alleges that the...

An article in Modern Healthcare by Mark Taylor outlines some of the provisions in the federal Deficit Reduction Act that are intended to cut fraud by encouraging whistleblowers. One provision requires...

New York State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno says that a proposed reform of the state’s Medicaid system could save more than $2 billion a year. Bruno says that the Republican majority’s...