Whistleblower Law Insights

Shinwa Electronics of South Korea has agreed to pay $1.2 million in settlement of a whistleblower suit that alleged the company falsified inspection records for fire alarms and safety equipment. The equipment...

Michigan has joined a host of other states in enacting a false claims act with a qui tam provision. Qui tam, short for a Latin phrase that translates as “he who brings an action for the king as well...

Williams Brothers Construction Company has agreed to pay $3 million to resolve claims that it violated the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) contracting requirements on federally-funded Texas highway...

The St. Barnabas Health Care System agreed to pay nearly $3.9 million to settle claims it overcharged Medicare, largely by billing for inpatient services when people received only same-day treatment. The...

Under a provision in the budget bill passed by the Senate on November 4 (and agreed to by the House on November 18) healthcare providers who receive Medicaid funds would have to educate staff about the...

Evertec Inc., formerly known as GM Group, has agreed to pay $4.8 million to settle allegations that it defrauded the government E-Rate program. The government alleges that the company violated the False...

Reporters for the Washington Post say that federal auditors have discovered massive overbilling by Unisys, hired three years ago to create a computer network for the Transportation Security Administration....

Staples Contract and Commercial has paid the federal government $7.4 million to settle allegations that it sold office supply products manufactured in countries not permitted by the Trade Agreements Act...

Two reports from the American Health Information Management Association claim health information technology can address the growing problem of healthcare fraud. AHIMA estimates that the United States could...

Serono, a Swiss pharmaceutical company, will pay $704 million to resolve criminal charges and civil allegations involving its promotion and marketing of Serostim, a drug used to treat AIDS wasting. The...