Defense contractor Northrop Grumman has agreed to settle a whistleblower lawsuit brought against them by a former quality assurance manager in 2006. The lawsuit claimed that the company failed to test electronic parts supplied to the government that were installed in military aircraft and spacecraft and were required to withstand extreme temperatures. The federal government will receive a [...]
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NORTHROP GRUMMAN SETTLES WHISTLEBLOWER LAWSUIT
Posted: June 27, 2010 by administrator in FCRATags: Alabama False Claims Act Lawyer, false claims act, government fraud, qui tam lawyer, WHISTLE
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FALSE CLAIMS ACT SUIT FILED AGAINST WYETH
Posted: May 14, 2010 by administrator in FCRATags: Alabama False Claims Act Lawyer, Alabama lawyer, Alabama Trial Lawyer, ALABAMA WHISTLEBLOWER LAWYER, false claims act, qui tam, qui tam lawsuit, qui tam lawyer, WHISTLEBLOWER, whistleblower lawyers
The Department of Justice and 16 states joined a False Claims Act lawsuit against Wyeth last year, but now 17 other states have piled on. This is a “nominal pricing” fraud similar to Merck’s Pepcid , Viox and Zocor frauds settled in 2008. FULL STORY
900 NEW CIVIL HEALTHCARE FRAUD INVESTIGATIONS BY DOJ
Posted: May 13, 2010 by administrator in FCRATags: ALABAMA WHISTLEBLOWER LAWYER, Healthcare Fraud, qui tam, qui tam lawyer, whistle blower, WHISTLEBLOWER, whistleblower lawyer
At a recent health care fraud press conference held with HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Attorney General Eric Holder noted that DoJ was prosecuting record numbers of health care fraud cases and that the Civil Division “opened nearly 900 new civil health care fraud investigations and had more than 1,100 pending cases.” FULL STORY
EXXON SETTLES FALSE CLAIMS ACT SUIT FOR $32 MILLION
Posted: April 6, 2010 by administrator in FCRATags: Alabama False Claims Act Lawyer, EXXON QUI TAM, false claims act, qui tam, qui tam lawyer, ROYALTIES FRAUD, WHISTLEBLOWER
Mobil Natural Gas and affiliates, have agreed to pay $32 million to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit charging the company with knowingly cheating on royalties owed for pumping natural gas from federal and American Indian leases between 1988 and 1999. Mobil merged with Exxon to become ExxonMobil in November 1999. FULL STORY
KELLOG BROWN & ROOT (KBR) SUED UNDER FALSE CLAIMS ACT (QUI TAM)
Posted: April 1, 2010 by administrator in FCRATags: Alabama False Claims Act Lawyer, government fraud, KELLOG BROWN & ROOT FRAUD, LOGCAP CONTRACT FRAUD, qui tam lawyer
The Department of Justice has filed a False Claims Act (FCA) case again Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) alleging they violated the False Claims Act by charging the U.S. Government for private armed security and allowing 33 of their subcontractors to do the same under the LOGCAP III contract, despite the fact that such charges were expressly [...]
PFIZER ORDERED TO PAY $41 MILLION FOR OFF LABEL MARKETING
Posted: March 25, 2010 by administrator in FCRATags: Alabama False Claims Act Lawyer, Neurontin Unapproved Uses, off label marketing, off label promotion, Pfizer, qui tam lawyer
A Boston jury last week ordered Pfizer Inc. to pay $47 million in damages in a lawsuit over its epilepsy drug Neurontin. The lawsuit claimed that the drug giant had marketed Neurontin for unapproved uses, which violates federal racketeering laws. While doctors are free to prescribe medicines as they see fit, drugmakers are only allowed to [...]
School District Employee Files Whistleblower Lawsuit
Posted: March 24, 2010 by administrator in FCRATags: false claims act, FCA, qui tam, qui tam lawyer, qui tam lawyers, whistle blower, WHISTLEBLOWER, whistleblower lawyer, whistleblower lawyers
A Texas school district employee has filed a whistleblower lawsuit after she was terminated after she reported the school district’s alleged illegal activity. According to her lawsuit, she was terminated after she reported to her employer that the school district’s new payroll system violated district policies and Texas state law. FULL STORY
DIALYSIS COMPANY ORDERED TO PAY GOVERNMENT BACK AFTER WHISTLEBLOWER LAWSUIT
Posted: March 23, 2010 by administrator in FCRATags: Alabama False Claims Act Lawyer, medicare fraud, qui tam, qui tam lawyer
A U.S. District Court Judge in St. Louis has ordered Renal Care Group, a kidney dialysis company, to pay $19.4 million back to Medicare in a whistle-blower lawsuit. The suit claimed that the firm created a shell company to earn an extra 30 percent on dialysis supplies — money that is supposed to go only [...]
$42.5 MILLION SETTLEMENT WITH ALPHARMA OVER KICKBACKS
Posted: March 19, 2010 by administrator in FCRATags: Alabama attorney, Alabama False Claims Act Lawyer, Alpharma Kadian, Alpharma Lawsuit, Atlanta, birmingham, false claims act, Florida, GEORGIA, huntsville, Memphis, mobile, nashville, Orlando, Panama City, pensacola, qui tam lawyer, tallahassee, Tuscaloosa, whistleblower lawyer
Alpharma Inc. has agreed to pay $42.5 million to settle a False Claims Act case charging the company with kickbacks in connection with the sale of morphine-based drug, Kadian. The drug company also misrepresented the safety and efficacy of the drug . Though a settlement has been reached, HHS has expressly reserved the right “to [...]
NEW JERSEY HOSPITAL SETTLES FALSE CLAIMS ACT LAWSUIT FOR MEDICARE OUTLIER FRAUD PAYMENTS
Posted: March 19, 2010 by administrator in FCRATags: alabama, Atlanta, attorney, birmingham, Dallas, dothan, Florida, GEORGIA, huntsville, Jacksonville, lawyer, medicare fraud, Medicare guideline fraud, mobile, montgomery, Orlando, OUTLIER FRAUD, pensacola, qui tam lawyer, tallahassee, tampa, Tennessee, TEXAS, Tuscaloosa, WHISTLEBLOWER
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Hamilton, New Jersey, has agreed to pay $6.35 million to settle allegations it defrauded Medicare by inflating outlier payments. Medicare provides supplemental outlier payments for cases that involve unusually high costs to providers. Two whistleblower lawsuits against the Hamilton hospital alleged it inflated charges to obtain these supplemental outlier payments for [...]