At Bracker & Marcus, we are passionate about providing updates and keeping our community informed on news and law regulations related to the False Claims Act throughout the United States.

12 07, 2023

SBA Reports More Than $200 Billion of PPP and EIDL Funds Lost to Fraud

2023-07-13T12:58:03+00:00By |False Claims Act Blog, Whistleblower Blog & News|

Our law firm has filed over a dozen False Claims Act cases alleging Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) fraud, and we have more in the [...]

23 06, 2023

CRH Healthcare Settles Covid Overbilling Claim for $1.6 Million

2023-07-12T21:27:43+00:00By |False Claims Act Blog|

As anyone involved in healthcare during the Covid pandemic can attest, there was an enormous amount of confusion about what providers could and could not do, and how they should [...]

12 05, 2023

DOJ Releases Updated False Claims Act Statistics for 2022

2023-07-12T21:27:44+00:00By |False Claims Act Blog, Whistleblower Blog & News|

The False Claims Act (FCA) imposes liability on individuals and organizations that defraud the government by submitting false or fraudulent claims for payment. When private whistleblowers discover such fraudulent activity, [...]

17 05, 2022

Stories from Skid Row: Vulnerable Populations Used to Perpetrate Medi-Cal, Medicare Fraud

2023-07-12T21:28:01+00:00By |Bracker & Marcus Firm News & Updates, False Claims Act Blog, Healthcare Fraud Blog|

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 [...]

11 03, 2022

COVID Relief Fraud: Justice Takes Time

2023-07-12T21:28:05+00:00By |False Claims Act Blog, Financial Fraud Blog, Whistleblower Blog & News|

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 [...]

18 02, 2022

PPP Funds False Claims Act Cases Starting to Become Unsealed

2023-07-12T21:28:08+00:00By |False Claims Act Blog, Government Fraud Blog, Whistleblower Blog & News|

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 [...]

4 02, 2022

COVID Relief Funds and the False Claims Act

2023-07-12T21:28:10+00:00By |False Claims Act Blog, Government Fraud Blog, Whistleblower Blog & News|

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 [...]

17 12, 2021

Proposed False Claims Act Amendments of 2021: Materiality (Part Deux)

2023-07-12T21:28:13+00:00By |Bracker & Marcus Firm News & Updates, False Claims Act Blog, Whistleblower Blog & News|

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. [...]

19 11, 2021

Bracker & Marcus LLC Settles Its Second MDGA-Intervened False Claims Act Case This Month

2023-07-12T21:28:15+00:00By |Bracker & Marcus Firm News & Updates, False Claims Act Blog, Healthcare Fraud Blog, Whistleblower Blog & News|

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 [...]