April 07, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
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 in the case. The whistleblower, who the SEC did not identify in order to protect confidentiality, […]
Learn MoreApril 03, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
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 the Vermont Student Assistance Corp. aren’t subject to sufficient state control to protect them from suits under the U.S. False Claims […]
Learn MoreMarch 31, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
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 Snowden kind that takes secrets to the media. But people who turn in […]
Learn MoreMarch 24, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
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 resolve allegations under the U.S. and North Carolina False Claims Acts that it made […]
Learn MoreMarch 20, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
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 investment advisers, law firms, accounting firms and other such businesses working for public companies. The court […]
Learn MoreMarch 18, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
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 walk-in medical clinics headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., with offices in Alabama, Tennessee […]
Learn MoreMarch 13, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
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 scheme. Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal […]
Learn MoreMarch 05, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
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 the Orlando Sentinel, the lawsuit alleges Medicare fraud and more […]
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February 21, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
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 an Endo insider blew the whistle on the company’s efforts to market Lidoderm off-label, for uses […]
Learn MoreFebruary 13, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
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 contractors that bill for work that is not performed,” said Assistant Attorney General for […]
Learn MoreFebruary 10, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
Sanborn Map Company Inc. has agreed to pay $2.1 million to the U.S. government to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims in connection with U. S. Army Corps of Engineers contracts, the Justice Department announced today. Sanborn, headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colo., provides photogrammetric mapping and geographic information system services. “We are committed to […]
Learn MoreFebruary 07, 2014 | Posted By: Hoyer Law Group, PLLC
CBS News examined a recently unsealed whistleblower case in which members of the military were targeted for their Tuition Assistance dollars. The lawsuit outlines a scheme to get service members to sign up for online certificate courses which were not eligible for the government money. Click on the video above to watch the CBS report […]
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