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INTRODUCTION
The sweeping overhaul of the financial system in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ("Dodd-Frank" or "Act")...
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Despite their inclusion in a health care statute, these FCA amendments are not limited to qui tam cases involving federal health care programs.
On M...
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Despite their inclusion in a health care statute, these FCA amendments are not limited to qui tam cases involving federal health care programs.
On ...
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... in the United States was the federal False Claims Act, inspired by the corruption and fraud t...
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(This article originally ran in Lawyers Weekly USA, Boston, MA, another Dolan Media publication.)
Qui tam - it may not sound like a billion-dollar industry, but it is.
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An engineer for a defense contractor who claimed he was fired for telling the U.S. government his company's anti-bomb device won't work in the heat of Iraq must now defend himself against his former employer's allegation that he misappropriated trade secrets after forming his own company.
In a 77-page reported opinion, U.S. District Court Judge J. Frederick Motz last week dismissed Dennis P. Glynn's claim that his termination by Impact Science & Technology Inc. violated the federal False Claims Act's prohibition on retaliating against a whistleblower.
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WASHINGTON, April 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mobil Natural Gas Inc., Mobil Exploration & Producing U.S. Inc. and their affiliates have agreed to pay the United States $32.2 million to resolve claims that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly underpaying royalties owed on natural gas produced from federal and American Indian leases, the Justice Department announced today. The Mobil companies are alleged to have systematically under reported the value of natural gas taken from the leases from March 1, 1988, to Nov. 30, 1999, and, consequently, paid less royalties than owed to the United States and various American Indian tribes.
The settlement with the Mobil companies arises from a lawsuit filed by Harold Wright on behalf of the United States. The qui tam or whistleblower prov...
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Maria T. Currier is a Partner and Liliana Marie Vidal is an Associate in our Miami office.
The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati (HAGC), a Cinci...
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The civil-settlement agreement resolves allegations against Bayonne that were filed in a lawsuit brought by a whistleblower under the federal False Claims Act. The act permits private citizens, known as relators, to bring lawsuits on behalf of the United States. Under the settlement, James Monahan, the relator in the lawsuit, will receive $400,000.
Iselin-based IJKG LLC, the buyer of Bayonne Medical Center, has agreed to pay $2.5 million to the United States to settle allegations that the hospital defrauded the Medicare program, the Justice Department has announced.
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Maria T. Currier is a Partner and Liliana Marie Vidal is an Associate in our Miami office.
The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati (HAGC), a Cin...