SEC Announces Total of $4 Million in New Awards to Whistleblowers

By Steve Kardell | Published November 8, 2021 | Posted in Whistleblower Litigation |

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently announced whistleblower awards of more than $4 million spread among four individuals who provided information critical to a securities fraud investigation. Here’s a quick overview of the information released by the SEC regarding these awards. First award: Claimant 1 internally reported concerns multiple times before reporting the Read More

Whistleblowers In Criminal Antitrust Activity Cases Protected from Retaliation

By Steve Kardell | Published November 4, 2021 | Posted in Whistleblower Litigation |

One of the final acts of the presidency of Donald Trump was to sign into law a Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act. The law prohibits employers from retaliating against employees who report violations of antitrust laws to the federal government or to their own internal higher-ups. About the legislation The legislation makes it illegal for employers Read More

Supreme Court: Employees Allowed to Use Workplace Computer Information to Blow Whistle on Fraud

By Steve Kardell | Published November 1, 2021 | Posted in Whistleblower Litigation |

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June in the case of Buren v. United States. The 6-3 decision added some limitations to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986. Now, federal prosecutors are not allowed to use the CFAA to charge employees who used workplace computer information to which they had authorized access to Read More

Key Takeaways for Employers from Texas’s New Sexual Harassment Laws

By Steve Kardell | Published October 28, 2021 | Posted in Sexual Harassment |

September 1 marked the day on which changes to the Texas Labor Code regarding sexual harassment officially went into effect. The rules affect smaller employers who had been excluded from being officially classified as “employers” in previous iterations of the Texas Labor Code. Here are the key changes employers should be aware of: “Employer” definitions: Read More

What Employers Should Consider in Wake of Recent Supreme Court Decision on LGBTQ Employment Discrimination

By Steve Kardell | Published October 25, 2021 | Posted in Employee Rights |

The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination by employers on the basis of both sexual orientation and gender identity. This was a landmark employment law ruling that finally settles questions about whether members of the LGBTQ community can be considered part of a protected class. Read More

Diabetic Testing Company Must Pay $160 Million to Settle Whistleblower Lawsuit

By Steve Kardell | Published October 21, 2021 | Posted in Whistleblower Litigation |

Arriva Medical, a company that specialists in mail-order diabetic testing services, recently reached an agreement with prosecutors to pay $160 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit. The False Claims Act case was initiated by a whistleblower named Greg Goldman, who worked at a call center in Antioch. Case background Goodman started working in the call Read More

Whistleblower Hotline Tip to Department of Defense Results in $25 Million Settlement

By Steve Kardell | Published October 18, 2021 | Posted in Whistleblower Litigation |

The inspector general’s office at the Department of Defense receives thousands of whistleblower hotline tips every year. Many amount to nothing, but every now and then the department strikes gold with one of these tips. One example is a call that was made in August 2014, which just this summer led to the Department of Read More

Three El Super Grocery Stores Fined for Violating COVID-19 Leave Rules

By Steve Kardell | Published October 14, 2021 | Posted in Employee Rights |

The California Labor Commissioner’s Office fined three El Super Grocery Stores in the southern part of the state for failure to comply with COVID-19 leave polices. The fines punished the grocery stores for failing to provide or delaying supplemental paid sick leave and other such benefits to 95 workers across the three stores. The grocery Read More

Prime Healthcare Whistleblower Lawsuit Results in $37.5 Million Settlement

By Steve Kardell | Published October 11, 2021 | Posted in Whistleblower Litigation |

Prime Healthcare, its founder Dr. Prem Reddy and a cardiologist based in California settled a whistleblower lawsuit for a total of $37.5 million, which will be paid to the federal government and the state of California. The plaintiff in the lawsuit was Phillips & Cohen LLP, which alleged the healthcare chain illegally paid kickbacks to Read More

Walmart Must Pay $125 Million to Former Employee after Disability Bias Lawsuit

By Steve Kardell | Published October 7, 2021 | Posted in Employee Rights |

A jury awarded a former Walmart employee with Down syndrome more than $125 million in a disability discrimination lawsuit. The compensatory and punitive damages in the case will be reduced to $300,000, the maximum allowed under the Americans with Disabilities Act. A Walmart spokesperson portrayed the EEOC’s demands related to the case as “unreasonable.” The Read More

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