St. Jude Medical Pays $3.65 Million to Settle Overcharge Claims
St. Jude Medical Inc. has settled, for $3.65 million, federal False Claim Act allegations arising from a qui tam case in which the relators alleged that the company inflated the cost of replacement...
View ArticleState False Claims Acts: It’s Not Just the Federal Government Anymore
While the federal False Claims Act gets the big headlines and the correspondingly big recoveries, it is important not to forget that a number of states have their own false claims acts under which...
View ArticleSharing Agreements, Consolidation, and Relators’ Share
More and more, we are seeing multiple and separate qui tam cases filed across various districts that, in part, contain overlapping claims, allege common sets of facts, or supplement each other in a way...
View ArticleU.S. Pays $104 Million Reward to Tax Whistleblower
According to numerous media reports citing his attorneys, former UBS Banker Bradley Birkenfeld has received a $104 million tax whistleblower reward for his role in exposing alleged secret Swiss banking...
View ArticleAs IRS Tax Whistleblowers Begin to Have Success, Is It Time for New York to...
After years of complaints from whistleblowers and other interested parties, the IRS whistleblower program—which was enhanced in 2006—has finally begun to show some signs of success. Consider: As my...
View ArticleThe Dodd-Frank Act and Whistleblowers: Broader Protection Than You Might Think
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 included a whistleblower program allowing individuals who report original information to the SEC leading to a recovery exceeding $1...
View ArticleJustice Department Announces Record Single-Year False Claims Act Recovery
The Justice Department yesterday reported $4.9 billion in False Claims Act recoveries for fiscal year 2012, which is the largest single-year recovery in history. The recoveries spanned several sectors...
View ArticleFreshPoint to Pay $4.2M to Settle FCA Lawsuit
The Justice Department recently announced a False Claims Act settlement with Houston-based food distribution company FreshPoint Inc. FreshPoint has agreed to pay $4.2 million “to resolve allegations...
View ArticleIRS Paid $53 Million to 122 Whistleblowers in 2013
According to the IRS Oversight Board’s recent report to Congress, the IRS paid $53 million last year to 122 whistleblowers. This is an average of nearly $435,000 per whistleblower. The whistleblower...
View ArticleRelators Win Right to Share of Proceeds Under False Claims Act
In a recent False Claims Act case from the Eighth Circuit, Rille v. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 6597 (8th Cir. April 10, 2014), the relators won an important victory against the...
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