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On Aug. 7, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a whistleblower case brought under the federal False Claims Act.

On September 30, 2024, Judge Kathryn Mizelle of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida dismissed United States, ex rel. Zafirov v. Florida Medical Associates, LLC et al., a False Claims Act (FCA) case brought by a qui tam relator.

A recent whistleblower case led to the filing of a false claims act complaint against Community Health Network (CHN) by the United States of America Department of Justice on January 7, 2020.

The DOJ's 39-page complaint alleges that United had fraudulently obtained inflated risk adjustment payments by over reporting diagnosis codes for MA beneficiaries since 2005.

Recent activities of the Department of Justice ("DOJ") and Qui Tam whistleblowers reveal that Medicare Advantage Plans remain at the forefront of investigations for violations of the federal False Claim Act...

If a contractor's policies and agreements do not carve out whistleblower reporting, the contractor could find itself facing a default termination, a bid protest, or even a False Claims Act suit.

On January 1, 2020, Congress voted to override the president's veto of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (NDAA), enacting the most significant overhaul of the...

Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit rejected a former compliance officer's whistleblower retaliation claim because she did not establish that she had an objectively reasonable belief that she was investigating illegal conduct when her employment was terminated.

The DOD, GSA, and NASA adopted a Final Rule addressing the allowability of legal costs incurred by a contractor or subcontractor defending against a whistleblower.

On April 1, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") settled its first enforcement action against a company for violating whistleblower protections by including restrictive language in confidentiality agreements used in its internal investigations.

Whistleblower lawsuits under the False Claims Act, also known as qui tam actions, have become more common in recent years.

The new law, known as the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 ("DTSA"), allows parties to sue in federal courts, even against citizens of the same state and regardless of the amount at stake.

On February 12, 2015, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that three U.S.-based importers had agreed to pay more than $3 million to resolve a lawsuit brought by the United States...

On July 10, 2023, the U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York announced the unsealing of an eight-count indictment against dual U.S.-Israeli citizen and Hunter Biden whistleblower Gal Luft.

In yet another large recovery for the DOJ, on December 6, 2012, DFB Pharmaceuticals, and its subsidiary, Healthpoint Ltd., agreed as part of a settlement to pay up to $48 million to resolve allegations that Healthpoint caused false claims to be submitted to Medicare and Medicaid for an unapproved drug, Xenaderm.

On March 29, 2022, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida held that in order to engage in protected conduct under the False Claims Act ("FCA"), a plaintiff must specifically...

Earlier this month, the White House released the National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan outlining specific "high impact initiatives" that the federal government will carry out to achieve its cybersecurity objectives.