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Kenneth A. Rosenberg was featured in Law360 article "5 Dos and Don'ts for Employers After NJ's Ethicon Ruling."

Federal agencies adopted an interim rule establishing when a federal defense contractor or subcontractor can recover legal costs incurred in a whistleblower action.

The latest installment of American Horror Story was off to a screaming start with the premiere of Hotel.

Against all odds, an appeals court in the US has ruled that whistleblowers who report misconduct internally are protected from retaliation under the Dodd-Frank Act.

Employers benefit from a decision that a former employee cannot maintain a whistleblower claim absent a reasonable belief that the employer violated a law or regulation.

A recent decision from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granting summary judgment in favor of an employer despite evidence of protected whistleblowing is instructive.

On January 27, 2022, the California Supreme Court clarified that whistleblower retaliation claims brought under Labor Code section 1102.5 must be evaluated under the framework prescribed in section 1102.6. Under section 1102.6...

The CFTC awarded approximately $50,000 to a whistleblower who provided information that assisted the CFTC in an enforcement action. The original information provided by the whistleblower spurred the launch of the investigation...

It appears that CMS took commenters' concerns seriously.

Pamela Mize-Kurzman, who had been promoted to Dean of Enrollment Services as part of a settlement of a previous lawsuit against the district, claimed the district retaliated against her for disclosing what she believed to be violations of the law or regulations to various individuals and entities.

Linda Ferrick, a former senior administrator for Santa Clara University, claimed the termination of her employment resulted from her reporting that her supervisor had engaged in what Ferrick believed to be commercial bribery.

Employers who believe they have been subjected to frivolous whistleblower suits are starting to say "enough is enough".

On February 13, 2018, the Fourth District of the California Court of Appeals issued an Order and Opinion affirming summary judgment for the Defendant, Riverside Community College District (RCC) ...

On Friday, May 20th, the SEC's Office of the Whistleblower issued an order determining that it would award two whistleblowers $450,000 for voluntarily providing original information to the agency that led to a successful enforcement action.

A Florida hospital reached an agreement with the U.S. DOJ to pay $85 million to settle part of a whistleblower lawsuit initiated by a former employee.

The lawsuit was filed by the company's former sales director, Kevin Colquitt, shortly after he left the company in 2006.

On January 18, 2013, a former New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (PRC) employee prevailed in the first case to reach trial under the state’s Whistleblower Protection Act.

On June 7, 2017, a California jury returned a 9-3 verdict, dismissing whistleblower claims brought by a former Space Exploration Technologies Corporation employee.