By Admin | Published March 19, 2015 | Posted in Graft and Corruption | Tagged Tags: False Claims Act, penalty, violations | Leave a comment
Fox Hollow Technologies Agrees to Settle False Claims Act Allegations
The United States Department of Justice recently announced that ev3 Inc., a company that recently acquired Fox Hollow Technologies, agreed to pay a $1.25 million penalty to settle accusations that Fox Hollow had committed violations of the False Claims Act by causing some of its hospital clients to submit false claims through the Medicare program. Read More
Read MoreDignity Health Pays $37 Million After Claims of Overbilling
Major whistleblower claims have been occurring in a wide variety of industries lately. One of the industries in which fraud is most prevalent is the health care industry, and this past fall an instance of fraud cost a hospital chain a great deal of money. Dignity Health, a hospital chain based in San Francisco and Read More
Read MoreWhistleblower Exposes Wrongdoing at Arizona Corporation Commission
One employee of the Arizona Corporation Commission claims to have uncovered wrongdoing within the agency, and that he was offered a promotion to keep silent about it. But now various allegations against former commissioner Gary Pierce, who just retired in December, have been made public, thanks to a seven-page letter written by that employee to Read More
Read MoreSupreme Court Issues Major Ruling Affecting Federal Workers Violating Agency Regulations
On January 21, 2015, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling determining that federal workers that violate agency regulations are still covered by federal whistleblower protections. The case was DHS v. MacLean, and involved an agent of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) who disclosed information that he was prohibited to give by TSA regulations. Read More
Read MoreCalifornia Joins Whistleblower Lawsuit Against BP
The state of California jumped aboard a whistleblower lawsuit in progress against BP Plc, alleging that BP had overcharged the state by up to approximately $300 million for nearly a decade for natural gas. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit now include the state, two of its university systems and a BP whistleblower, Christopher Schroen. The Read More
Read MoreEx-Dallas ISD Employees Say HR Department Operated Through Fear, Retaliation
Shortly after Chrystal Thierry refused to approve some extremely high pay raises for several top administrators within the Dallas Independent School District, she says she became the victim of retaliation. As the compensation director for the school district, it was her job to oversee such pay raises. When she declined to approve them, her boss Read More
Read MoreRecord Settlement Not Enough for JPMorgan Whistleblower
In what was the largest settlement ever reached between the United States Department of Justice and a corporation, JPMorgan Chase paid out $13 billion to the government in response to charges that the organization had significantly overstated the quality of the mortgages that it had been selling to investors leading up to the economic downturn. Read More
Read MoreTennessee Home Health Care Agency to Pay $25 Million in Whistleblower Settlement
CareAll Management LLC, a Tennessee-based agency that provides in-home health care services, must pay $25 million to settle a whistleblower suit. The agency came to an agreement with the United States Department of Justice and the Tennessee Office of the Attorney General and Reporter. As a part of the settlement, CareAll must abide by strict Read More
Read MoreWhistleblowers Now Have More Time to File Whistleblower Claims through NLRB
Under the whistleblower provisions of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), employees typically only have 30 days to file a complaint about employer retaliation. However, OSHA has now reached an agreement with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that will allow OSHA to refer untimely claims to the NLRB’s whistleblower division for its own Read More
Read MoreTexas Supreme Court to Weigh In on Shell Defamation Suit
The Texas Supreme Court recently agreed to hear Shell Oil Co.’s pending defamation case. Robert Writt, a former Shell employee, sued the company for defamation after Shell submitted a report to the Department of Justice about his alleged involvement in committing numerous violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practice Act (FCPA). It’s an interesting case — Read More
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