The seal protects the Government’s investigation, the Defendant’s privacy, and the whistleblower’s employment. The False Claims Act requires that every new case be filed under seal. Pursuant to 31 U.S.C. [...]
Imagine this: you are homeless and living in a tent on a stretch of street in Los Angeles called Skid Row. You are desperate for food, for warmth, for any [...]
A recent Law 360 article titled “The Hottest FCA Cases and Trends to Watch in 2022” starts its round up of “the new FCA frontiers that lawsuits are beginning to [...]
Relator’s Shares Paid Out on Processing Fees and Penalties, Not on Total Loan Recoveries We’ve been talking a lot about PPP loans in this blog, and for good reason: it’s [...]
At this point, the COVID pandemic and its ongoing implications for public health and policy is a constant topic of debate. We are not here to discuss any of the [...]
In October 2021, we shared the first part of our discussion on materiality and proposed amendments to the False Claims Act. However, in late November, those proposed amendments were updated. [...]
The whistleblowers alleged that the hospital was improperly billing split/shared visits as if patients were seen by a physician when they were only seen by a midlevel provider. Right [...]
As we discussed in a previous post, FCA changes have been proposed which will potentially affect several aspects of the FCA, including cost-shifting in discovery. Today, we are going to [...]
Mediation is an efficient and effective option for resolving False Claims Act lawsuits Here in Georgia, autumn has rolled in seemingly overnight. The yelling from the playground across the street [...]
Department of Justice may once again use internal agency guidance to enforce the rule of law In January 2018, then-Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand issued a memo, known as the [...]
