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

15 04, 2022

Behavioral Health Services Provider Settles False Claims Act Allegations for $750,000

2023-02-09T15:44:50+00:00By |Bracker & Marcus Firm News & Updates, Healthcare Fraud Blog, Whistleblower Blog & News|

Bracker & Marcus Client Latashia Hawkins Awarded 23% Relator’s Share We are proud to announce that the United States and the State of Georgia have intervened in a False Claims [...]

11 03, 2022

COVID Relief Fraud: Justice Takes Time

2022-10-14T01:11:02+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

2022-10-14T01:10:37+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

2022-10-14T01:10:19+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)

2022-10-14T01:09:55+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. [...]

3 12, 2021

Bracker & Marcus Recognized as Fourth Most Prolific Qui Tam Firm in America

2022-10-19T18:54:13+00:00By |Bracker & Marcus Firm News & Updates, Whistleblower Blog & News|

Legal analytics firm Lex Machina reviewed thousands of unsealed False Claims Act cases from 2016 to 2020 to determine most active plaintiffs’ law firms. Adding another feather to Bracker & [...]

19 11, 2021

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

2022-10-14T01:09:25+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 [...]

5 11, 2021

Bracker & Marcus Settles Intervened False Claims Act Case Alleging Infusions Performed by Medical Assistants

2022-10-19T19:03:20+00:00By |Bracker & Marcus Firm News & Updates, Healthcare Fraud Blog, Whistleblower Blog & News|

Georgia requires licensed nurses to perform infusions; our whistleblower nurse discovered her co-workers were unqualified medical assistants. Bracker & Marcus LLC is pleased to announce that the federal government has [...]

29 10, 2021

Proposed False Claims Act Amendments of 2021: Materiality Bites

2022-10-14T01:08:51+00:00By |Bracker & Marcus Firm News & Updates, False Claims Act Blog|

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 [...]

8 10, 2021

Facebook Whistleblower And SEC Protections

2022-10-20T16:07:23+00:00By |Whistleblower Blog & News, Whistleblower Retaliation Blog|

Facebook Whistleblower And SEC Protections Have you ever thought to yourself: “I wonder how Facebook, whistleblowers, and the SEC intersect?” If so, today is your lucky day! By now, most [...]