By Steve Kardell | Published March 9, 2023 | Posted in Covid-19, Employee Rights | Tagged Tags: covid-19, layoffs, settlement |
The COVID-19 pandemic led to a lot of layoffs, including those at Scribe Opco Inc., also known as the Koozie Group. 212 employees from the Florida and Minnesota plants were laid off at the beginning of the pandemic, and sought compensation from the company. Case background Former Koozie Group employee and class representative Eric Jones Read More
Read MoreBrockton Urology Clinic LLC in North Easton, Massachusetts recently agreed to pay $100,000 to settle claims it submitted false claims to Medicare in violation of federal law. The case is yet another example of healthcare fraud cases that cost the United States billions of dollars every single year. Case background According to the settlement agreement, Read More
Read MoreReliant Rehabilitation Holds, Inc., a national rehabilitative care provider based in Plano, Texas, will pay $6.1 million to the federal government to settle claims it paid kickbacks to its skilled nursing facilities and doctors. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Reliant violated the False Claims Act by pairing up clients with nurse practitioners for Read More
Read MoreAllied Dental Practices of New Jersey agreed to pay a $420,000 settlement in a case involving a whistleblower who alleged the company simply deleted accounts in which it still owed money to patients and insurers. According to the complaint, some of the deleted accounts included debts to patients of more than $1,000, money that — Read More
Read MoreRutgers University recently merged with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, but as a result it also inherited a pair of ongoing whistleblower claims against that school. Those cases were recently settled for a combined award of nearly $2 million. In one of the lawsuits, the former chief financial officer of UMDNJ’s Read More
Read MoreIn 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
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