The Supreme Court engaged in oral argument this week over an issue of the False Claims Act: how two separate statute-of-limitations provisions apply to False Claims Act actions when the [...]
Puerto Rico will now have an additional weapon in its arsenal to combat hurricane contractors who defraud the island. Recently, Governor of Puerto Rico Ricardo Rosselló signed House Bill 1627, [...]
Nearly $3.5 billion in proceeds that was brought in last year from False Claims Act cases filed by whistleblowers. Some of the interesting stats are below: 675 Qui Tam Cases [...]
The author of the 1986 amendments to the False Claims Act, Senator Charles Grassley, addressed the Senate on new problems facing the False Claims Act. His full speech can be [...]
The city of Philadelphia believes so. City officials are looking to hold the pharmaceutical companies accountable for their part in the crisis by suing them under a city false claims act. The [...]
An update to our previous blog post: Mylan will pay $465 million in fines to settle claims brought by the U.S. Justice Department. In a rare instance of a corporation being the [...]
EpiPen pricing has been in the headlines often lately. The manufacturer, Mylan, keeps raising the price and ripping off patients. EpiPens went from costing $57 in 2007 to around $600 [...]
On May 17, 2017, 49 state attorney generals signed a letter to the Senate Finance Committee requesting appropriate legislation to allow for sharing of the Part D recoveries with the [...]
The Department of Justice has reported its False Claims Act numbers for 2016, and has announced that over its 8-year term, former President Obama's administration recovered more than $31.3 billion [...]
“Because the seal requirement was intended in main to protect the Government’s interests, it would make little sense to adopt a rigid interpretation of the seal provision that prejudices the [...]