Latest Qui tam Stories
BALTIMORE, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Renal Care has agreed to pay $7.3 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower lawsuit brought by a nurse that alleged a company U.S. Renal Care acquired, Dialysis Corporation of America (DCA), overcharged Medicare for years for an anemia drug used to treat dialysis patients. The "qui tam" (whistleblower) lawsuit alleged that DCA was billing Medicare and other government healthcare programs for more Epogen than was actually...
ATLANTA, May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- C.R. Bard Inc., a multinational medical device company, has agreed to pay the federal government $48.2 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that alleges its urological division and wholly owned subsidiary, ProSeed Inc., paid doctors and hospitals kickbacks to entice them to order Bard's products at inflated prices to treat Medicare patients with prostate cancer. Bard and ProSeed, based in Covington, Georgia, sold radioactive seeds used for...
SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A whistleblower lawsuit and a government investigation has led to an agreement by Adventist Health to pay the federal government and the state of California a total of $14.1 million to settle allegations that an Adventist hospital in Los Angeles illegally paid physician practice groups for patient referrals by inflating other payments the hospital made to the group. The "qui tam" (whistleblower) lawsuit was filed in 2008 in...
U.S. government's intervention in two whistleblower lawsuits against Novartis, alleging kickbacks and other frauds, could have serious implications for the pharmaceutical giant, according to members of the Qui Tam Team. Philadelphia, PA (PRWEB) May 02, 2013 Qui Tam Team http://www.quitamteam.com; e-mail: QuiTamTeam(at)gmail(dot)com As highlighted in a piece by Jonathan Stempel of The Washington Post on April 26, 2013, following two federal lawsuits, including U.S. Attorney Preet...
Organization celebrates one-year anniversary of website and blog launch BOSTON, March 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- This month marks ten years since Suzanne Durrell (principal of Durrell Law Office) and Bob Thomas (principal of Thomas & Associates) began collaborating on False Claims Act qui tam cases on behalf of whistleblowers. Since joining forces, Ms. Durrell, a former chief of the Civil Division of the Boston U.S. Attorney's Office, and Mr. Thomas, a former white-collar criminal...
LOS ANGELES, March 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A federal qui tam whistle-blower lawsuit filed in 2008 by former University of California-Irvine (UCI) Professor and Anesthesiologist Dr. Dennis O'Connor triggered a multi-year investigation by the United States Department of Justice, resulting in an agreement by the California Board of Regents to pay the United States $1.2 Million. The False Claims Act lawsuit alleged that anesthesia was routinely administered at UCI by Certified...
PHILADELPHIA, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Par Pharmaceutical Company has agreed to pay $45 million to settle civil and criminal allegations that the company launched a long term care ("LTC") sales force to promote Megace ES for off-label uses including weight loss in elderly patients. The FDA approved Megace ES in July 2005 for the treatment of anorexia, cachexia, or an unexplained, significant weight loss in patients with a diagnosis of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome....
"False Claims Act: Whistleblower Litigation, Sixth Edition" Offers a Definitive Guide to Effectively Litigating Qui Tam Cases ARLINGTON, Va., March 1, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bloomberg BNA has published the Sixth Edition of False Claims Act: Whistleblower Litigation, providing guidance and analysis of the False Claims Act (FCA) and the many different legislative developments and judicial opinions surrounding it, including qui tam cases in which a private citizen assists in a...
Bert Louthian, a Columbia qui tam lawsuit attorney, encourages whistleblowers with knowledge of fraudulent activity to come forward, fight fraud and potentially claim significant cash rewards. Columbia, S.C. (PRWEB) February 21, 2013 With the federal government recovering more and more taxpayer dollars lost to health care billing fraud, South Carolina False Claims Act attorney Bert Louthian today praised government efforts and success in using whistleblower lawsuits to reclaim taxpayer...
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Workers who uncover wrongdoing or unethical business practices being carried out by their employers under government contract often have questions about possible steps that could be taken to right identified wrongs. Sometimes blowing the whistle on these bad actions leads to retaliation and many don't know where to turn for information about their legal rights under these circumstances. JusticeNewsFlash.com in association with San...
