By Steve Kardell | Published April 30, 2018 | Posted in Whistleblower Litigation | Tagged Tags: federal whistleblower law, state employee, wrongful termination |
In a major decision for state and federal whistleblower law, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld a verdict worth $3.2 million in favor of an individual who was fired after exposing wrongdoing related to Pennsylvania Turnpike contracts and practices. The whistleblower had revealed a significant amount of waste in turnpike contracts, along with suspicious hiring practices Read More
Read MoreThe U.S. Navy is under fire for terminating a civilian whistleblower who reportedly discovered life-threatening risks to pilots and others due to the improper testing of aircraft fueling equipment and jet fuel that was found to degrade aircraft engines and cause flameouts. The whistleblower was fired June 8, which just happened to be the same Read More
Read MoreThe Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled a whistleblower retaliation claim filed by a lab quality technician at a Springfield, Minnesota, facility run by MAT Holdings, Inc. would be allowed to proceed. In the claim, the worker claims he was fired after complaining to a state agency about his employer asking him to Read More
Read MoreThe U.S. Department of Labor’s Administrative Review Board recently revived a Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) claim made by a whistleblower who was a former nurse at the Medical Center of Aurora. The board says an administrative law judge was mistaken in finding she did not meet the requirements for an ACA whistleblower Read More
Read MoreA jury in California has awarded $25.1 million in damages to a former employee of Cardiovascular Systems Inc. after determining the company wrongfully fired him. The employee, who was at one point a regional sales manager for CSI, filed the lawsuit against the company in 2015. In the suit, he claimed the medical device manufacturer Read More
Read MoreInfosys Ltd., the second-largest provider of software services in India, announced its general counsel and chief compliance officer, David Kennedy, was leaving the company effective December 31. The announcement was considered noteworthy because of its seemingly sudden nature and the fact that Kennedy received a $1 million severance package upon his departure. His severance package Read More
Read MoreA whistleblower has filed a lawsuit against auto manufacturer Volkswagen, claiming he was terminated by the company after attempting to stop it from deleting evidence related to investigations into excess vehicle emissions. Depending on how this lawsuit turns out, it could have an impact on the ultimate size of the penalties imposed on the company Read More
Read MoreSome new guidance provided by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this summer gave some additional reinforcement to the agency’s stance that whistleblowers who report misconduct through their company’s internal channels rather than immediately going to the SEC are still protected by the Dodd-Frank Act’s retaliation provisions. However, there is still some debate over the Read More
Read MoreIn 2012, a jury ruled that Bayer Corporation had unlawfully terminated one of its sales representatives, Mike Townsend, because he alerted the Arkansas Attorney General to incidents of physicians overbilling Medicaid for the company’s drugs. Just before the company fired Townsend, it had suspended his corporate credit card for six months after his wife accidentally Read More
Read MoreThe 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
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