More than 400 people have been charged with taking part in health care fraud schemes and opioid scams that totaled $1.3 billion in false billing, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Thursday. Calling the collective action the “largest health care fraud…
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President Trump today signed the Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act into law. This VA reform bill gives the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (“VA”) David Shulkin and future VA Secretaries the ability to discipline and fire employees for poor…
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The whistleblower in a 2008 qui tam case filed against medical waste company Stericycle under the False Claims Act will receive almost $5.7 million as her share of the settlement. Stericycle Inc, a medical waste disposal company, settled a qui…
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A whistleblower is usually someone who works for a company where fraud is suspected; someone with “insider” knowledge of what’s going on within the company. But that’s not always the case. Sometimes the whistleblower is an outsider with expert knowledge…
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A Connecticut whistleblower is set to receive $102,000 in a qui tam suit filed under the False Claims Act against a medical products supplier. J & L Medical Services LLC agreed to pay the State of Connecticut $600,000 to…
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After almost a decade, a Louisiana-based shipyard, Bollinger Shipyards, has agreed to pay the federal government $8.5 million to settle a False Claims Act suit. The suit claims that Bollinger misrepresented the longitudinal strength of ships that the company was…
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A Medicare False Claims Act case brought against a laboratory company in western Wisconsin and its owners has ended with a settlement of $8.5 million dollars. The whistleblower who came forward with allegations of fraud will receive $1.1 million of…
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The latest report from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) revealed emerging trends in whistleblower activity and anti-retaliation law in 2015.
The Salazar v. Monaco Enterprises, Inc, case involves an employee claiming wrongful discharge as a result of his whistleblowing activities.
The Security and Exchange Commission’s Office received almost 4,000 tips in 2015 – a 30% rise in the number of whistleblower tips since 2012.