Hoyer Law Group Legal Blog

Washington D.C., April 4, 2014 — The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that the whistleblower who received the first award under the agency’s new whistleblower program will receive an additional $150,000 payout after the SEC collected additional funds...

Pennsylvania and Vermont student-loan agencies must face false-billing claims brought in 2007 by a former U.S. Education Department employee, a federal appeals court ruled, reviving the whistle-blower lawsuit. The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency and...

Burned by its failure to catch the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, despite years of warnings from a tipster, the Securities and Exchange Commission couldn’t say no when Congress ordered it to pay whistleblowers. There’s little love in official Washington for the Edward...

RALEIGH – United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina Thomas G. Walker and North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper announced jointly that Duke University Health System, Inc. (Duke University Health System) has agreed to pay $1 million to...

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided whistleblower protections apply not just to publicly traded companies but also to subcontractors that do business with them. The justices voted 6-3 along non-ideological lines in a ruling that extends whistleblower protections to...

American Family Care will pay $1.2 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that it knowingly submitted claims to Medicare for outpatient office visits that were billed at a higher rate than was appropriate. American Family Care is a network of...

A federal jury in Houston today convicted two owners of a former Houston mental health care company, Spectrum Care P.A. (Spectrum), several of its employees and the owners of certain Houston group care homes for their participation in a $97 million Medicare fraud...

Halifax Hospital agreed to pay a record-setting $85 million to settle part of a whistleblower case pending against the company.  The James Hoyer Law Firm serves as local counsel in the case, along side the Wilbanks & Bridges Law Firm in Atlanta.  As reported in...

Endo Health Solutions and its subsidiary Endo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. will pay $192.7 million to settle civil and criminal charges stemming from a whistleblower case that the company illegally marketed a pain treatment patch called Lidoderm.  The settlement comes after...

MPRI Inc. has agreed to pay $3.2 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false labor charges on a contract to support the Army in Afghanistan, the Justice Department announced today. MPRI is a Chantilly, Virginia-based company. “We will not tolerate...