Whistleblower Law Insights

The Florida Attorney General has sued three pharmaceutical manufacturers for wrongfully inflating the prices charged to Florida’s Medicaid program, resulting in a loss to the state’s taxpayers...

PharMerica, a company that provides pharmacy supplies to long-term care institutions, will pay $6 million to settle kickback charges. The Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General said it was...

Arthur D. Little has agreed to pay $6.5 million to resolve charges it submitted false and inflated claims for work to the federal government. The company was alleged to have billed the government at commercial...

Defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. has agreed to pay $62 million to settle a nearly 16-year-old case alleging that the company systematically overcharged for materials used in the production of...

An Indiana company will pay $7.2 million to settle claims that it sold mice that did not meet researchers’ specifications to the National Institute on Aging. The government contended that the company...

The Florida attorney general has filed a lawsuit accusing Tenet Healthcare Corporation of improperly inflating medical procedure charges. The fraudulent inflation resulted in reimbursement from the Medicare...

A former Hewlett-Packard Co. employee filed a whistle blower lawsuit under the California False Claims Act, alleging that HP and its spinoff, Agilent Technologies Inc., tried to defraud customers by selling...

Cintas Corp., an Ohio-based uniform supplier, is being investigated to determine whether the company has been overcharging government agencies. The Justice Dept. has asked a judge to order Cintas to turn...

Florida International University has agreed to pay $11.5 million in settlement of allegations of mischarging and overbilling the U.S. Dept. of Energy under several contract and grants. The contracts and...

Cleveland Clinic Florida Hospital has paid the United States $2.75 million to settle allegations the hospital billed Medicare for observation services for patients who did not qualify for the reimbursement....