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Acting Assistant Attorney General Chad A. Readler recently told Congress that False Claims Act (“FCA”) cases continue to be the most effective means of combating fraud and protecting the federal fisc. In his testimony before the Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on...
In this blog post we will briefly outline the major components of the SEC Whistleblower Program (“Program”) including the process of submitting a claim, notices of covered actions and their link to financial recovery, and finally the necessity to retain experienced...
The James Hoyer law firm served as local counsel in a whistleblower case against Freedom Health, which provides managed care services. Freedom agreed to pay a total of $32.5 million to resolve allegations that it engaged in illegal schemes to maximize payments from...
A high level whistleblower who worked for UnitedHealth Group says his company and other insurers have been bilking taxpayers by gaming the system to get higher payments. Benjamin Poehling, a former finance director with United Health, told the New York Times the...
Dr. Judy Robinson with Tyler & Koger families. A whistleblower suit filed by Dr. Judith Robinson under the False Claims Act has led to an $18 million settlement with two of Indiana’s largest health care providers. Indiana University Health and HealthNet have...
The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether an Atlanta-based hedge fund is violating federal securities laws by guaranteeing to its investors that they won’t lose money. Statim Holdings Inc., headed by Joseph Meyer, Jr., is the parent company for...
The ABC station in Orlando profiles our payday lending class action case which is finally moving forward after nearly 20 years. Click on the video above to watch the story. Justice could be nearing after almost two decades. The James Hoyer law firm is part of a team...
The fight against fraud received some significant help last week when Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Wyden introduced legislation geared to strengthen the IRS Whistleblower program. If passed into law, the IRS Whistleblower Improvements Act of 2017 will provide...
Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Ron Wyden today introduced bipartisan legislation to improve IRS communication with tax fraud whistleblowers and protect those whistleblowers from workplace retaliation, they announced in a news release. “Whistleblowers have helped the IRS...
Although a vast majority of states (and the District of Columbia) have False Claims Acts to protect their taxpayer dollars, twenty states still have not enacted effective anti-fraud legislation. Pennsylvania is one of those states lacking a False Claims Act law....
