“DOJ Declines Don’t Hinder Whistleblowers in Fraud Recovery Lawsuits” by ML McLaren Link to original source (110K) Whistleblowers are showing their persistence in continuing to pursue qui tam cases after the government declines to intervene and 2015 was the most profitable year yet for whistleblower recoveries in declined cases. When a whistleblower lawsuit is filed, […]
Shocking Tragic Ending in Taylor Bean Whistleblower Case
Being a whistleblower isn’t easy. Of course many make huge sums of money and are successful in stamping out fraud. Unfortunately along their journey some face retaliation, poverty and the inability to discuss their case. (False Claims Act cases are “sealed” by the court during investigation.) Although the public reads about the successful cases, not […]
Dialysis Patients and Medically Unnecessary Ambulance Transports
[Post updated July 2020] When this post was first written in 2015, a Kentucky ambulance company had agreed to pay almost $1,000,000 to settle charges of Medicare fraud brought by the U.S. Department of Justice. Prosecutors had accused Lafferty Enterprises, doing business as Trans Star Ambulance, of transporting patients to and from dialysis by ambulance […]
US Senator Menendez & Medicare Fraud?
Whistleblowers who stand up to Medicare fraud already face plenty of hurdles… retaliation, possible loss of their job and being ostracized by co-workers. Because Medicare fraud cases filed under the False Claims Act are sealed by the court, whistleblowers often can’t even defend themselves or explain what is happening to co-workers. Congress realized the hardships […]
Two Medicare Fraud Whistleblowers Get $5 Million!
Here is a great Christmas story! A reimbursement manager and a sales manager, each former employees of Kyphon, Inc., will split receive an additional whistleblower award of almost $5 million. The two men, Craig Patrick of Hudson, Wisconsin and Charles Bates of Birmingham, Alabama, were awarded $4.75 million for their efforts in alerting the government […]
Mortgage Servicers and the Need for Whistleblowers
[Note: This post by attorney Brian Mahany originally appeared in the National Law Review. It is repreinted here with permission from the the NLR.] The recent onslaught of bad press about nonbank mortgage servicer Ocwen is just the tip of the iceberg. Ocwen may be on everyone’s radar these days but the explosive growth of […]
Iceland’s Response to Bank Fraud – A Lesson for the U.S.?
[Note: This post by attorney Brian Mahany originally appeared in the National Law Review. It is repreinted here with permission from the the NLR.] The United States has collected tens of billions of dollars in the wake of the 2007 –2008 economic meltdown. Bank of America alone paid over $20 billion, much of that last year […]
Medicare Fraud – Civil or Criminal?
Many of the Medicare fraud stories we cover end up with someone going to prison. When we represent whistleblowers in state and federal False Claims Actions, our goal is both to stop fraud and to earn our clients the maximum award monies possible. Questions frequently arise as to when and why Medicaid or Medicare fraud […]
Bank of America Postscript
We get emails from blog readers. With thousands of visits per year, we are humbled by how far and wide our blog reaches. Often we hear how a particular post was circulated within a company. Thankfully, we are blessed with both great clients and a great audience of active readers. Most of the mail about […]
Bank of America – "Smack of Arrogance"
Trying to stay abreast of the newest Bank of America scandals has almost become a full time occupation. We constantly receive calls from aggrieved homeowners, other lawyers and would-be whistleblowers. As I write this, my colleague Joe Bird is in North Carolina battling the banking behemoth on behalf of homeowners who claims the bank “placed […]
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