Legal News Articles - Whistleblower

Verizon Pays $93.5 Million to Settle Government Whistleblower Lawsuit

April 8, 2011. By Charles Benson.

Washington, DC: Verizon Communications Inc. recently paid more than $93 million to resolve government whistleblower allegations that it overcharged on invoices for telecommunications service contracts, the Wall Street Journal reports.

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Whistleblowers Go Directly to Attorneys—Bypass Feds

March 31, 2011. By Jane Mundy.

Washington, DC: Increasingly, attorneys are taking on qui tam whistleblower cases without waiting for the go-ahead from the Department of Justice (DOJ). In fact, about 80 percent of the cases filed under the False Claims Act (FCA), which are mostly Medicare-related, were recently filed without the DOJ's intervention.

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$23.4 Million for Medical Sales Exec Who Blew the Whistle

March 24, 2011. By Brenda Craig.

New York, NY: Attorney Kirk Chapman and fellow attorney Ross Brooks from Milberg LLP in New York City recently settled a ground-breaking whistleblower suit under the False Claims Act on behalf of Sean Mason, a sales executive at a giant US medical supplies company.

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Qui Tam Whistleblower Health Fraud Lawsuit California's Largest

March 23, 2011. By Gordon Gibb.

Sacramento, CA: A Qui Tam Whistleblower lawsuit in California now has the state Insurance Commissioner in its corner, alleging that a major pharmaceutical manufacturer provided doctors with perks and kickbacks in exchange for prescribing that company's products. The alleged scheme, if proven true, is thought to have cost health care insurers in the state of California up to $3.5 billion, and remains so far the largest health insurance fraud case pursued by the California Department of Insurance.

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Qui Tam Whistleblower—Not an Easy Moneymaker

March 16, 2011. By Jane Mundy.

Anaheim, CA: Janet (not her real name), says she isn't afraid of being a Qui Tam Whistleblower, because now that she has been terminated, she feels that there's really nothing left to lose. Now she has decided to pursue a qui tam lawsuit against her former employer.

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New Food Safety Legislation to Offer Federal Whistleblower Protection

February 24, 2011. By Charles Benson.

Minneapolis, MN: One of the provisions of the new food safety law recently signed by President Barack Obama will offer federal whistleblower protection to employees in the food industry, The Associated Press reports.

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Time to Cap Qui Tam Whistleblower Awards?

February 14, 2011. By Gordon Gibb.

Washington, DC: While the world continues to marvel at the $96 million payout to the Qui Tam Whistleblower who called out GlaxoSmithKline on bad manufacturing practices, there remains hundreds of qui tam False Claims Act (FCA) cases under the microscope—with the vast majority related to alleged fraud against Medicare and Medicaid.

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"Whistleblowers Like Lottery Winners"

February 8, 2011. By Jane Mundy.

Washington, DC: Qui tam whistleblower lawsuits—particularly those involving Medicare fraud and big Pharma—are on the rise, according to the advocacy group AmericasWatchdog.com., and evident by recent whistleblower news. "Federal Qui Tam whistleblower laws could make a healthcare, or pharmaceutical whistleblower millions," says Thomas Martin, president of the advocacy group. But in the same breath, he adds that there are rules and risks.

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Philadelphia Is a Center for Government Whistleblowers

January 23, 2011. By Charles Benson.

Philadelphia, PA: The US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has become a hub for government whistleblowers and their lawsuits over the past few years, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

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Healthy Pay Day for Two Qui Tam Whistleblowers

January 16, 2011. By Gordon Gibb.

Washington, DC: A Qui Tam Whistleblower case that has been going on since 2008 continues to recover losses for the government. To that end, an allegedly fraudulent billing practice on the part of a collection of hospitals that cost Medicare millions of dollars in unnecessary spending has come home to roost yet again with the announcement January 4 of an additional $6.3 million in recovered funds by way of a whistleblower lawsuit.

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