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The United States Department of Justice announced today that Quest Diagnostics Inc. and Quest Diagnostics Clinical Laboratories Inc. (collectively “Quest Diagnostics”) have paid the United States $1.79 million to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act....
13 WTHR Indianapolis The case of a baby who suffered permanent neurological damage during birth was exposed in a whistleblower case filed by James Hoyer client Dr. Judith Robinson. WTHR, the NBC affiliate in Indianapolis, profiled the story of little Denise and her...
Senator Chuck Grassley To help celebrate the 237th anniversary of the first whistleblower law passed by the Continental Congress back in 1778, United States Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa prepared a stirring statement recounting the law’s history and the obstacles it...
Senator Chuck Grassley Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley praised the False Claims Act today on the 237 year anniversary of the passage of the country’s first whistleblower law. On July 30, 1778, the Continental Congress passed the very first whistleblower law in the United...
Lead Attorney Jesse Hoyer The Department of Justice recently announced that Education Affiliates, a for-profit education company, agreed to pay $13 million to the United States to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act. The company was accused of...
Peggy Ryan In a striking decision, Endo Pharmaceuticals former employee Peggy Ryan was granted a whistleblower award close to the maximum percentage that a whistleblower can receive in a False Claims Act case. United States District Court Judge Robert Kelly in the...
Attorney Jillian Estes and Sofia In addition to her work as a whistleblower attorney, James Hoyer Partner Jillian Estes devotes her time to pro bono work handling international child abduction cases which fall under the Hague Convention. In her latest case, she...
Representing a big win for whistleblowers, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal recently upheld a $237 million False Claims Act verdict against Tuomey Healthcare System, which some have billed as the “largest ever levied against a community hospital.” The case could...
VMware Inc. and Carahsoft Technology Corporation have agreed to pay $75.5 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by misrepresenting their commercial pricing practices and overcharging the government on VMware software products and...
In United States ex rel. Holmes v. Northrop Grumman Corp., No. 1:13-cv-00085-HSO-RHW (S.D. Miss. June 3, 2015), a district court tossed the whistleblower, who was an attorney, and his case because of a series of serious ethical misconduct including the blatant...
