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On March 28, 2025, Kings County Justice Aaron Maslow granted a pre-answer motion to dismiss retaliation claims filed by a former supervising pharmacist against Carter Ledyard clients, a specialty pharmacy.

Continuing his long and storied history of pushing for stronger enforcement of the False Claims Act (FCA), Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) recently led a bipartisan group of senators in introducing...

Last week, the Third Circuit reversed a New Jersey district court’s decision to dismiss a False Claims Act qui tam law suit.

On May 1, 2026, Connecticut’s House of Representatives gave final approval to Senate Bill 5, now rebranded as the Connecticut Artificial Intelligence Responsibility and Transparency Act (the “Bill”)...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced that the Georgia Institute of Technology will settle a whistleblower qui tam suit for $875,000.

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division announced a new Whistleblower Program. Under this program, a "whistleblower" who reports criminal antitrust conduct to the Department may receive 15-30% of any fine that may result from the whistleblower's report.

On July 22, 2015, the Senate unanimously passed a bill that aims to protect whistleblowing employees who report antitrust violations from retaliation by their employers.

Imagine you are counsel to a public company and are tasked with reviewing its annual 10-K. In the course of your review, you confer with a number of individuals in the finance and accounting functions and they report that a significant number of post-close adjustments were made at year end and these adjustments ..

A recent SEC announcement shows the continuing rewarding of whistleblowing in the US.

David Woodcock discusses the SEC's renewed focus on financial reporting and disclosure violations.

In a heavily redacted decision issued on April 5, 2016, the SEC approved the claim of one whistleblower and denied the claim of another for providing information related to an unidentified enforcement action.

On August 2, 2021, the Chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Gary Gensler, issued a "Statement in Connection with the SEC's Whistleblower Program." In his Statement, Chair Gensler noted that he has ...

The SEC this year has demonstrated its willingness to incentivize whistleblowers and companies to share information about misconduct and assist with the SEC’s investigations.

Since issuing its first whistleblower award in 2012, the SEC has awarded approximately $1.3 billion to 278 individuals.

On June 16, 2014, the SEC issued its first-ever charge of whistleblower retaliation under section 922 of the Dodd-Frank Act.

On September 30, 2013, the last day of the fiscal year, the SEC awarded more than $14 million to a tipster who provided details that led to a substantial recovery of investments in an enforcement action against Bank of the Commonwealth executives alleging a cover-up of loan portfolio losses by 64%.

Today the SEC announced that it is issuing a whistleblower award of over $14 million to a whistleblower who provided information that resulted in the recovery of investor funds.