Whistleblowers

The Impact of Employment Releases on Qui Tam Cases Whistleblowers often run into this situation:  they’ve done the right thing to report suspicious conduct up the company’s chain of command only to be rewarded by being told that their services are no longer needed....

Earlier this month the Railroad Retirement Board announced in the May 2nd Federal Register that the statutory penalties associated with False Claims Act cases would be going way up.  The underlying legislation spurring the increase is the Federal Civil Penalties...

Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange Late last month, Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange urged Alabama lawmakers to establish a False Claims Act for the state in order to increase the funds available for medical services for Alabama’s most needy citizens....

Most whistleblower cases are brought to recover the ill-gotten gains of fraud committed against the government. Most cases arise in the healthcare field, but many stem from military contracts, educational grants, and even environmental fraud. One area that is often...

On February 29, 2016, Lockheed Martin Corporation and subsidiaries Lockheed Martin Energy Systems and Lockheed Martin Utility Services agreed to pay the United States $5 million to resolve allegations that they violated the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act...

Credit:  Steve Petteway, Staff Photographer of the Supreme Court As reported around the world this weekend, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia passed away of natural causes at the age of 79. Justice Scalia, who at the time of his death was the longest serving...

For the 2015 fiscal year, the United States Department of Justice reported that whistleblowers helped the government recover more than $3.5 billion for the fourth year in a row, bringing the total recoveries from January 2009 to the end of the fiscal year to $26.4...

Updating on our previous post, on Friday, December 4th, the United States Supreme Court accepted certiorari in the case Universal Health Services v. United States ex rel. Escobar. As described by the ScotusBlog, the important issues related to qui tam liability...

Petitions for certiorari are before the Supreme Court of the United States asking that the Court resolve an important issue impacting False Claims Act liability for government contractors. The issue is whether implied certification of compliance with government...

Some potential clients have asked: are federal agencies immune from whistleblower cases? For example, a federal health agency employee may have witnessed what they perceive the be wasteful spending of Medicare dollars or in some cases outright fraud. As any taxpayer...