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James, Hoyer Newcomer & Smiljanich is pleased to announce that attorney Chris Casper has been named managing partner and attorneys Jillian Estes, Sean Estes, Jesse Hoyer, and Sean Keefe have been named partners.  James Hoyer is an investigative law firm with an...

Omnicare Inc., the nation’s largest provider of pharmaceuticals and pharmacy services to nursing homes, has agreed to pay $124.24 million for allegedly offering improper financial incentives to skilled nursing facilities in return for their continued selection of...

A federal judge has ruled former Endo Pharmaceuticals Sales Representative Peggy Ryan is the sole whistleblower eligible for a portion of the company’s $193 million off-label marketing settlement, announced in February by the U.S. Justice Department.   Ryan is...

Shands Health Care System has agreed to pay $3.25 million to settle outstanding claims that six of its Florida hospitals submitted improper outpatient billing to the government which resulted in overpayments from Medicaid, Medicare and TRICARE.   This settlement comes...

American taxpayers have 96 million reasons to care what Lance Armstrong says under oath later this month. Prosecutors are seeking more than $96 million from the disgraced cyclist, according to documents Armstrong’s lawyers attached to motions they filed in Washington...

Assistant Attorney General Stuart Delery Photo Credit: U.S. D.O.J. On Thursday, June 5, Assistant Attorney General Stuart Delery, head of the Department of Justice’s Civil Division, spoke to a conference of qui tam attorneys in Washington, D.C. at the American Bar...

A Los Angeles physician was indicted today for a $33 million scheme to defraud Medicare, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney André Birotte Jr. of the Central District of California,...

It’s a yearly spring ritual: college-bound students, young and old, applying online for much-needed federal student aid in the form of grants or loans. Unfortunately, a few unscrupulous individuals view Title IV Federal Student Assistance funding as a way to line...

More than 90 individuals were charged on Tuesday in a nationwide crackdown against what investigators said was massive fraud in federally administered health-care programs. The defendants were charged with submitting more than $260 million in fraudulent claims to the...

A whistle-blower lawsuit, which was settled for $5 million and dismissed, had accused Tenet of paying kickbacks to doctors in return for patient referrals to its hospitals. By Daniel Chang [email protected] Tenet Healthcare Corp., owner of four Miami-Dade...