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Three Importers Resolve False Claims Act Lawsuit for $3 Million

March 9, 2015 March 9, 2015 — Employee insiders often know more about their employers’ fraudulent schemes against the government than they report. To encourage whistleblowers to take action when they are aware of fraud against the government, like the failure to pay anti-dumping or countervailing duties, the False Claims Act allows tipsters to share in a portion of any recovery made in the lawsuit. When...

Vaginal Mesh Lawsuits in Settlement Negotiations

March 9, 2015

C.R. Bard Inc., one of the manufacturers of vaginal mesh products that have injured thousands of women, is in the process of negotiating a possible settlement. Nationwide, the medical device maker has been sued in more than 14,000 state and federal lawsuits. Pelvic mesh, also called vaginal mesh ortransvaginal mesh (TVM), is used to treat women with urinary incontinence or pelvic organ...

SEC Charges Manager of Phony Hedge Fund

March 6, 2015 March 6, 2015 — Investors trust investment hedge fund managers to manage their investments in a responsible and ethical manner. When instead, fund managers actually steal their investors’ money, they deserve to be reported to the financial fraud whistleblower program established by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. Informants who notify the Securities...

Additional $420 Million to Be Paid in Metal-on-Metal Hip Settlement

March 6, 2015

Johnson & Johnson has consented to pay an additional $420 million to settle ASR hip implant lawsuits that had been excluded from a 2013 settlement amounting to $2.5 billion. The lawsuits allege that the metal-on-metal hip replacements caused pain, dislocation and metal poisoning. In addition, the implants often required patients to undergo painful revision surgery in which the defective...

Good Shepherd Hospice Settles False Claims Act Lawsuit for $4 Million

March 4, 2015 March 4, 2015 — The federal False Claims Act empowers hospice insiders to file a whistleblower lawsuit on behalf of the United States. When hospice providers cheat the system by overbilling Medicare for hospice care services that are unnecessary or ineligible for reimbursement, they put the continued viability of hospice benefits at risk. Whistleblowers, who are also referred to as...

Medical Device Maker Resolves False Claims Act Lawsuit for $1.25 Million

March 3, 2015 March 3, 2015 — The False Claims Act empowers health care insiders to file a whistleblower lawsuit on the government’s behalf. Courageous whistleblowers help to protect the integrity of the Medicare healthcare program for those who need it. Under the Act, the United States may choose to intervene in a qui tam lawsuit and take primary control for litigating it. The statute provides for the...

Four Charged With Insider Trading in Northern California

March 2, 2015 March 2, 2015 — Financial analysts are entrusted with sensitive information concerning their employers’ business dealings. Trading on that nonpublic information for personal gain is a crime. To fight illegal insider trading, the U.S. Congress set up a whistleblower program as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. Tipsters who notify the Securities and...

Asbestos Companies’ Self-Interest Still Transparent

March 2, 2015

The same asbestos companies that have played a role in killing 3,000 Americans each year with the deadly cancer, mesothelioma, have been busy lobbying the new Congress to pass a law that would invade the privacy of those cancer victims and their families. The name of this proposed legislation is the Furthering Asbestos Claims Transparency Act (FACT) act. The law would require asbestos victims...

Iowa Home Health Care Provider Settles False Claims Act Allegations for $5.63 Million

February 27, 2015 February 27, 2015 — The False Claims Act empowers health care insiders to file a whistleblower lawsuit on the government’s behalf. Courageous whistleblowers help to protect the integrity of our federal healthcare programs, like Medicare or Medicaid, for those who need them. Under the Act, the United States may choose to intervene in the lawsuit and take primary control for litigating it....

Power Morcellator Endorsed by Surgeon Receiving Fees from Manufacturer

February 27, 2015

In April 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned that the power morcellator medical device, which surgeons were using in large numbers in hysterectomies, had been associated with a risk of spreading cancer cells during the procedure. A month later, the AAGL — a group of gynecologic laparoscopists — issued a counter-report claiming that power morcellation is safe when performed...

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