Firm News

The Department of Justice announced one of the largest False Claims Act settlements ever over Stark Statute violations, related to improper compensation to doctors for referrals.  Adventist Health System has agreed to pay more than $118 million to settle allegations...

Bill James – Founding Partner Bill James was one of the founding partners of the James Hoyer law firm. He was always known as a man of integrity, strength and fearlessness.  It’s been 40 years since he battled Tampa’s mafia, despite the personal danger he faced as a...

Judy Hoyer is one of the founding partners of the James Hoyer law firm. She made her name as a prosecutor and carried that experience into private practice here as a whistleblower attorney at the James Hoyer law firm, with a focus on qui tam litigation. Judy believes...

Pictured left to right: Adam Hoyer, Chris Hoyer, Angie Moreschi, Jim Ross, Jillian Estes, and Sean Estes The annual James Hoyer law firm baseball outing was great fun once again.  Every year, we gather with our family and friends at Tropicana Field to enjoy America’s...

The United States Department of Justice announced today that Quest Diagnostics Inc. and Quest Diagnostics Clinical Laboratories Inc. (collectively “Quest Diagnostics”) have paid the United States $1.79 million to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act....

13 WTHR Indianapolis The case of a baby who suffered permanent neurological damage during birth was exposed in a whistleblower case filed by James Hoyer client Dr. Judith Robinson.  WTHR, the NBC affiliate in Indianapolis, profiled the story of little Denise and her...

Senator Chuck Grassley Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley praised the False Claims Act today on the 237 year anniversary of the passage of the country’s first whistleblower law. On July 30, 1778, the Continental Congress passed the very first whistleblower law in the United...

Lead Attorney Jesse Hoyer The Department of Justice recently announced that Education Affiliates, a for-profit education company, agreed to pay $13 million to the United States to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act.  The company was accused of...

Peggy Ryan In a striking decision, Endo Pharmaceuticals former employee Peggy Ryan was granted a whistleblower award close to the maximum percentage that a whistleblower can receive in a False Claims Act case. United States District Court Judge Robert Kelly in the...

Attorney Jillian Estes and Sofia In addition to her work as a whistleblower attorney, James Hoyer Partner Jillian Estes devotes her time to pro bono work handling international child abduction cases which fall under the Hague Convention.  In her latest case, she...