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September 26, 2014 September 26, 2014 — Investors must be able to trust companies’ publicly filed SEC reports. When instead, companies file phony reports and deliberately deceive investors, the financial fraud whistleblower program established by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) of 2010 should be notified. Tipsters who collaborate with the Securities and Exchange...

September 24, 2014 September 24, 2014 — Many states, including California, have False Claims Acts that mirror the federal statute and prohibit medical providers from billing Medicare or any other government healthcare program for services that patients do not need. Under the qui tam provisions of the state and federal statutes, health care insiders are encouraged to collaborate with the government about false...

September 17, 2014 September 17, 2014 — The federal False Claims Act empowers health care insiders to file a whistleblower lawsuit on behalf of the United States. The government relies on tipsters to protect the integrity of our federal healthcare programs for those who need them. When medical providers bilk the system by overbilling Medicare for hospice care services that are unnecessary, they put the...

September 12, 2014 September 12, 2014 — In 2010, Medicaid spent $7.5 billion on dental care for America’s low-income families. Not all of that money went to pay for dental procedures that were necessary, or for that matter, even performed, however. Because Medicaid is partially funded with federal tax dollars, taxpayers everywhere have an interest in protecting the healthcare program from fraudsters. The...

September 8, 2014 September 8, 2014 — The U.S. government cannot possibly investigate all the False Claims Act violations engaged in by unethical government contractors. But inside informants, like the whistleblowers in many False Claims Act lawsuits, are ideally poised to unearth violations of the statute by their employers. Under the qui tam provisions of the Act, informants who file a whistleblower lawsuit...

September 4, 2014 September 4, 2014 — Investors must be able to trust their brokers to manage their portfolios in an ethical manner. When instead, brokerage firms actually steal profits from their own customers, the financial fraud whistleblower program established by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) of 2010 should be notified. Informants who collaborate with the...

August 29, 2014 August 29, 2014 — It is a violation of the federal False Claims Act for a medical provider to bill Medicare or any other government healthcare program for a medical device that has not been approved by the FDA for the particular use for which it was prescribed. Under the qui tam provisions of the statute, insider employees are encouraged to notify the government of such Medicare billing...