Whistleblower Law Insights

OPI Properties, a subsidiary of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis, pleaded guilty to attempting to elude or impede federal audits. The settlement was the result of an investigation into the feeding...

Fresno County will pay the federal government an additional $376,000 to settle a case involving false Medicare claims made in the 1990s. This brings the total to $652,937. Fresno County and the Fresno...

The U.S. Dept. of Justice announced that it had settled False Claims Act suits related to a gene therapy experiment that resulted in the death of an Arizona teenager. The University of Pennsylvania, Children’s...

The Massachusetts Attorney General has announced that 15 companies that supply orthopedic footware to Medicaid recipients have agreed to pay $526,000 to settle overpayment allegations. The suit, brought...

Aerometals, a California defense contractor, will pay the federal government $251,000 to resolve charges it defrauded the Air Force and Army by supplying used and reconditioned parts that it said were...

Timothy C. Spayne, a solo practitioner in Connecticut, has paid the federal government $1.24 million to settle allegations that he billed U.S. Navy contractor Electric Boat for up to 94 hours in a single...

Former employees claim General Motors Corp. and two other U.S. government contractors sold faulty generators to the Navy. The qui tam suit seeks $100 million in damages, which could be tripled under the...

Inter-Tel Technologies has agreed to pay $8.7 million and to plead guilty to wire fraud and antitrust charges. The charges filed by the Justice Department alleged that Inter-Tel submitted rigged bids,...

Catskill Regional Medical Center paid $52,000 per month in illegal kickbacks to an unnamed entity for sham administrative services. Catskill received millions of dollars for treating these illegally referred...

The Dept. of Justice announced on December 30, 2004 that HealthSouth Corporation, the nation’s largest provider of rehabilitative medicine services, has agreed to pay the United States $325 million...