Blog

Adventist Health Pays $118 Million to Settle Whistleblower Case

September 22, 2015 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC

---

The Department of Justice announced one of the largest False Claims Act settlements ever over Stark Statute violations, related to improper compensation to doctors for referrals.  Adventist Health System has agreed to pay more than $118 million to settle allegations from multiple whistleblowers.  The U.S. government will receive $115 million and $3.75 million will go […]

Learn More

Whistleblower Award Held To Be Ordinary Income

September 16, 2015 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC

---

In our experience, whistleblowers by and large do not do it for the money. Rather they bring the case in order to right a wrong inflicted upon their government and fellow taxpayers. That said, whistleblowers are financially incentivized to bring their cases. Section 3730(d)(1) of the False Claims Act (“FCA”), 31 U.S.C. §§3729-33 provides that […]

Learn More

Bill James Tribute on 40th Anniversary of Mafia Crackdown

September 16, 2015 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC

---

Bill James – Founding Partner Bill James was one of the founding partners of the James Hoyer law firm. He was always known as a man of integrity, strength and fearlessness.  It’s been 40 years since he battled Tampa’s mafia, despite the personal danger he faced as a result.  Tampa Tribune writer Paul Guzzo takes […]

Learn More

Founding Partner Judy Hoyer Describes Firm Philosophy

September 14, 2015 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC

---

Judy Hoyer is one of the founding partners of the James Hoyer law firm. She made her name as a prosecutor and carried that experience into private practice here as a whistleblower attorney at the James Hoyer law firm, with a focus on qui tam litigation. Judy believes that the means and methods of committing […]

Learn More

Annual James Hoyer Baseball Outing

August 31, 2015 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC

---

Pictured left to right: Adam Hoyer, Chris Hoyer, Angie Moreschi, Jim Ross, Jillian Estes, and Sean Estes The annual James Hoyer law firm baseball outing was great fun once again.  Every year, we gather with our family and friends at Tropicana Field to enjoy America’s great pastime, good food and good company. It’s always a […]

Learn More

Ninth Circuit Removes Bar To Whistleblower Lawsuits

August 27, 2015 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC

---

Last month, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an important ruling for whistleblower lawsuits, reversing 23-years of bad law pertaining to what a relator must prove to overcome the Public Disclosure Bar. The Public Disclosure Bar seeks to prevent lawsuits by “opportunistic plaintiffs who have no significant information to contribute of their own.” Graham County Soil […]

Learn More

Quest Diagnostics Pays $1.8 Million in Whistleblower Case

August 25, 2015 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC

---

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. This settlement resolves allegations that Quest Diagnostics submitted duplicative claims to Medicare for certain venipuncture services and […]

Learn More

Whistleblower Case Exposes Harm to Babies and Moms

August 12, 2015 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC

---

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 mom, Nancy Koger. The Koger’s case was one of three permanently injured […]

Learn More

Happy 237th Birthday to Whistleblower Law!

July 30, 2015 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC

---

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 has had to overcome to become the effective tool for recovering taxpayer money that […]

Learn More

Senator Grassley Praises the False Claims Act

July 30, 2015 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC

---

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 States.  It read: [I]t is the duty of all persons in the […]

Learn More