False Claims Act in Healthcare at work Florida businessman Daniel Hurt and his associated companies have recently reached a settlement agreement to pay over $27 million to the U.S. government. Hurt, who owned and operated Fountain Health Services LLC, Verify Health, Landmark Diagnostics LLC, First Choice Laboratory LLC, and Sonoran Desert Pathology Associates LLC, allegedly...
Whistleblowers play a key role in revealing fraud and corruption, risking their personal and professional lives to disclose crucial information. The following list highlights whistleblowers, not limited to False Claims Act cases, whose bravery is notable. These whistleblowers are publicly known, although anonymity is possible with proper legal support. EDWARD SNOWDEN One of the...
Young Law Group, PC, announced today that it has secured a multi-million-dollar award on behalf of a whistleblower client resulting from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s $97 Million enforcement action against TIAA-CREF Individual & Institutional Services LLC, a subsidiary of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA). The SEC whistleblower case alleged that from...
Eric L. Young from Young Law Group, P.C. (YLG), representing an anonymous whistleblower, disclosed today that Endo Health Solutions, Inc. (“Endo”), has agreed to a civil settlement of $475 Million to resolve its civil liability under the federal False Claims Act by unlawfully promoting Opana ER, a dangerous opioid drug that was removed from the...
In December 2023 ChristianaCare, a nonprofit health system, agreed to pay $47.1 million in order to settle a Qui Tam case brought forth by Ronald Sherman, the former Corporate Compliance officer of Christiana. The whistleblower alleged that the health system violated the federal and Delaware False Claims Act, as well as the Anti-Kickback Statute by...
The British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) will now reward individuals who provide valuable information regarding investment fraud and other serious market misconduct. The whistleblower awards, ranging from $1,000 to $250,000, will be determined based on the promptness of the information’s reporting, its contribution to enforcement outcomes, the severity of the misconduct, and other relevant factors. In certain...