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10 Jun 2012, 7:52 am by Ben Vernia
On June 7, the Department of Justice announced that Texas-based Orthofix had agreed to pay over $34 million to settle civil False Claims Act allegations, and nearly $8 million more as a criminal fine for obstruction of justice. [read post]
25 Mar 2013, 12:55 pm by Megan Weisgerber
               Last week, the Fourth Circuit issued a decision that exposes government contractors to False Claims Act lawsuits based on allegations which were previously considered untimely and which had already been the... [read post]
17 Jun 2010, 1:52 am by Ben Vernia
In a June 7, order, Nevada District Judge Kent Dawson dismissed the claims of a former employee of Kaplan, Inc., asserting that the educational company was liable as successor for allegedly false student loan applications submitted by a Las Vegas trade school it had purchased. [read post]
27 Jan 2020, 5:26 pm by Ben Vernia
  These whistleblower, or qui tam, actions comprise a significant percentage of the False Claims Act cases that are filed. [read post]
20 Dec 2010, 3:29 am by Maxwell Kennerly
Moreover, qui tam is a specialized world, where credibility with the government is key, and no whistleblower lawyer wants to be the dimwit who burned up all of his credibility wasting the U.S. [read post]
4 Aug 2021, 9:24 am by anne
  Second, Goodman’s qui tam complaint does not include allegations regarding claims for deceased beneficiaries; these claims were added by the government complaint in intervention, and may have been uncovered during the government investigation of Goodman’s claims. [read post]
30 Dec 2024, 9:20 am by jeffreynewmanadmin
Sec. 3729) allows individuals or companies to file qui tam lawsuits against individuals or companies that directly or indirectly defraud the Federal Government. [read post]
19 Mar 2008, 11:36 am
The privateering qui tam plaintiffs get to keep for themselves as much as 30% of the loot. [read post]
20 Jul 2021, 11:41 am by Margaret Houtz
Eventually, a former employee of VJ Associates filed a qui tam suit under the Massachusetts False Claims Act. [read post]
25 Feb 2021, 12:32 pm by Rick Robinson and James F. Hennessy
Qui Tam Cases The Final Rule clarifies that the deduction disallowance rule does not apply to any amount paid in connection with an order or agreement for a suit in which no governmental entity is a party. [read post]
26 Jan 2011, 1:31 am by Ben Vernia
In 1986, Ranking Member Charles Grassley and Representative Howard Berman led successful efforts in Congress to amend the False Claims Act to revise the statute’s qui tam (or whistleblower) provisions, which encourage whistleblowers to come forward with allegations of fraud. [read post]
18 Jan 2011, 12:15 pm by Sheppard Mullin
 Currently, twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia have general and/or health care FCA statutes with qui tam provisions, and another six have FCA statutes without qui tam provisions. [read post]
30 Nov 2022, 6:56 pm by Kurt R. Karst
”  FDA regulated companies should not take too much comfort from this and similar results, though because while relators cannot enforce the FDCA, the FDA certainly can, and one function of qui tam FCA cases is that they prompt the government to evaluate and investigate the allegations in the complaint and written disclosure of the material evidence that the relator possesses. [read post]
2 Jul 2012, 9:42 pm by A. Brian Albritton
 One of the civil settlements reported that relators had filed 4 qui tams against GSK and that the U.S. had intervened in them in 2011. [read post]