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The Eastern District of Pennsylvania recently ruled that an employee's SOX whistleblower retaliation claim failed as a matter of law because no causal connection existed between his complaints and termination and the employer would have taken the same adverse action in the absence of protected activity.

We have previously written about how Dodd-Frank retaliation cases are a mixed bag for employers and about the Supreme Court's expansion of Sarbanes-Oxley ("SOX") Whistleblower protections.

The Eastern District of Pennsylvania recently granted immunity under the whistleblower provision of the Defend Trade Secret Act in what appears to be the first decision of its kind under the new federal trade secret statute.

The Ninth Circuit unanimously concluded that a trustee and lawyer for certain multiemployer funds violated ERISA § 510 by unlawfully firing a whistleblower in the funds' collections department

The Northern District of New York recently denied a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss a former employee's Dodd-Frank whistleblower retaliation claim, finding that the plaintiff sufficiently alleged....

On May 14, 2014, the New York Court of Appeals issued a unanimous decision relating to New York Labor Law §740(2), otherwise known as New York’s "whistleblower statute."

We have previously blogged on the Daramola v. Oracle case brought by a former Oracle employee who blew the whistle on Oracle and NetSuite's fraudulent...

OSHA recently awarded more than $1.9 million to a former CFO of Clean Diesel Technologies, Inc. who is not identified in OSHA’s press release.

Proskauer Partner Connie N. Bertram, co-head of the Whistleblowing & Retaliation Practice, participated in a webinar last week with Sean McKessy, Chief of the SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower. The webinar, sponsored by the American Bar Association, was entitled "New Developments in Whistleblower Claims and the SEC."

The Northern District of Illinois recently dismissed an Indiana-based employee's claims for retaliatory discharge in violation of common law, focusing on the nature of the connection...

The SEC awarded more than $14 million to a whistleblower earlier this month in exchange for information that helped the SEC bring an enforcement action against the perpetrators of an investment fraud in less than six months after the report.

On June 3, 2019, the SEC's Office of the Whistleblower announced a $3 million award to two whistleblowers who provided the SEC with information that led it to investigate

The SEC denied awards to five other claimants.

On April 1, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced its first enforcement action, against KBR, Inc., based on language in confidentiality agreements that could stifle the whistleblowing process. The action was brought under SEC Rule 21F-17.

In less than one week, the SEC issued two whistleblower awards totaling over $4.4 million

Hospital company HCA Holdings, Inc. recently asked a federal court judge to dismiss a False Claims Act suit filed by whistleblower and former employee, Stephen McMullen.

When most employers hear the word "whistleblower," they think of their current employees and various anti-retaliation laws.