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The growing carbon credit and related derivatives markets continue to attract the attention of regulatory agencies and law enforcement.

An often overlooked requirement of the ACA is that healthcare providers have an obligation to refund overpayments within 60 days of discovery.

Whistleblowers filed 638 qui tam suits in FY 2015, and whistleblower awards totaled $597 million.

The Market Abuse Regulation sets out the EU requirements on insider dealing, the unlawful disclosure of inside information and market manipulation and will apply directly across the EU from July 3, 2016.

The need to detect and investigate reported allegations of wrongdoing within a corporation has long been a fact of corporate life.

The SEC appointed Nicole Creola Kelly as the Chief of the Office of the Whistleblower.

The Securities and Exchange Commission remains keenly focused on whether confidentiality provisions in corporate agreements, particularly severance agreements, can impede whistleblower reporting of potential legal violations to the SEC or other government agencies.

The SEC promoted Jane Norberg to chief of the Office of the Whistleblower.

The SEC Office of the Whistleblower Chief Jane Norberg will step down after serving in the position since 2016.

The latest cases in a recent string of settled orders by the Securities and Exchange Commission again highlight the agency's resolve to prevent corporate actions that could chill reporting of possible legal violations.

There is now objective proof that, for whistleblowers seeking substantial bounties for reporting alleged corporate fraud, the False Claims Act is not the only game in town.

On March 5, 2014, a California jury awarded $6 million to a former accounting executive at Playboy Enterprises Inc. (the "Company"), finding that the Company discharged the former employee in violation of Section 806 of SOX.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") is proposing amendments to its Dodd-Frank whistleblower regulations to bring them more in line with the SEC's whistleblower bounty program.

On February 12, 2014, the Fifth Circuit in Villanueva v. U.S. Department of Labor held that an employee did not engage in protected activity under SOX when he reported alleged violations of Columbian tax laws to U.S. executives at his employer.

In this episode of Dirty Steel-Toe Boots, Phillip Russell is joined by Tom Chibnall, to discuss the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) recent activity on the regulatory front...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has signaled that it will take aggressive action against employers who, by way of employment-related agreements, restrict, prohibit, or otherwise...

The qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act (FCA) allow employees to bring whistleblower claims on behalf of the government.