By Steve Kardell | Published June 8, 2020 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Tenet Healthcare Corp. Settles False Claims Act Lawsuit for $1.4 Million
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Tenet Healthcare Corp. Settles False Claims Act Lawsuit for $1.4 Million
Tenet Healthcare Corp. and one of the California hospitals under its umbrella agreed to pay $1.4 million to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit. The suit alleged the company implanted pacemakers into patients unnecessarily and sought reimbursement from Medicare for doing so. Case background The lawsuit was originally filed by Michael Grace, who accused the Read More
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Transit Organization Fires its CEO After Whistleblower Investigation
The Hillsborough Area Regional Transit (HART) authority in Tampa recently terminated its Chief Executive Officer Ben Limmer after a whistleblower complaint and investigation into his improper conduct. The transit authority board received a letter in November from a whistleblower alleging impropriety in vendor relations, procurement processes and other similar issues. The general counsel for HART Read More
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Secondhand Whistleblower Reports Can Be Extremely Valuable
There is a tendency in organizations to dismiss secondhand whistleblower reports as little more than hearsay. However, experts say secondary whistleblower reports can actually be extremely valuable for uncovering information about fraud and other internal wrongdoing. One recent study by CFO.com analyzed more than two million whistleblower reports from more than 1,000 public companies in Read More
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Nurse Staffing Agency Must Pay $3.2 Million Settlement in Wage and Hour Lawsuit
Advantage RN, LLC, a nurse staffing firm, agreed to pay $3.2 million to settle a class action wage and hour lawsuit. Nurses working with the company alleged the firm routinely failed to pay overtime in accordance with California state law. The company allegedly did not calculate regular pay rates properly, which resulted in incorrect overtime Read More
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AT&T Under Fire for Age Discrimination in 2019 Layoffs
A class action lawsuit filed in January alleges layoffs at AT&T in 2019 were designed to get rid of older employees, and that the company attempted to get those employees to waive their right to sue the company with a form that was not enforceable by law. Lawsuit background At the time of the layoffs, Read More
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School District Must Pay More Than $100,000 to Settle Asbestos Whistleblower Claim
Dearborn Heights School District No. 7 (D7) was ordered by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to pay more than $100,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a whistleblower who made complaints about asbestos in school facilities in 2012 and 2016. The settlement money was for $102,905 in back wages, damages and other compensations. Read More
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Whistleblower Claims City of San Diego Ignored Asbestos and Fire Safety Warnings at Downtown High Rise Building
An engineer who works for the City of San Diego recently claimed in a letter to the San Diego City Attorney’s Office that supervisors ignored his numerous warnings about fire dangers and asbestos contamination at a high-rise property owned by the city on Ash Street.
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Former CEO of Interface Inc. Files $100 Million Wrongful Termination Lawsuit
In mid-January, Jay Gould was fired from his position as CEO of Interface Inc., a global manufacturer of flooring materials. Now he has filed a lawsuit against the company for wrongful termination, and seeks $100 million compensation.
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A Six-Month Recap of Current and Prospective Covid-19 Litigation Employment law may be the practice area most affected by COVID-19. In this fourth part of a multi-part series, Corporate Counsel is publishing a frank conversation between Steve Kardell, a leader on the plaintiff’s side of COVID-19 employment law, and, on the management side, Harry Jones, Read More
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SEC Issues First Whistleblower Awards of 2020
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently awarded a whistleblower more than $277,000 for their assistance in providing the agency with significant information that alerted it to an ongoing fraud scheme. It also provided a second award for $45,000 to an investor who helped the SEC recover assets that were ultimately returned to victims.
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