The forefront of Whistleblower Litigation A newly expanded whistleblower program in the Dodd-Frank law has opened a fertile business opportunity for plaintiffs’ lawyers –and sparked a feverish multimedia marketing effort aimed at people in a position to report financial skullduggery to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The new government program, which provides for lucrative payouts...
We Settle Wage & Hour Case For Zinc Production Workers Young Law Group, P.C., Attorneys-at-Law, is pleased to announce final approval of a $1.2 million dollar settlement with Horsehead Corporation to resolve a collective action lawsuit brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) on behalf of over 500 present and former unionized zinc production...
U.S. joins whistleblower lawsuit against Renal Care Group The United States has intervened in a whistleblower suit accusing Renal Care Group (“RCG”) and Renal Care Group Supply Company (“RCGSC”), wholly owned subsidiaries of Fresenius, of fraudulently billing Medicare for supplies and equipment provided to End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) patients who received dialysis treatments at...
Maximum Recovery as Whistleblower Client Rewarded 50% of Fine As a result of a Whistleblower complaint filed by James Legg of Anchorage, Alaska, on October 23, 2007, Polar Tankers, Inc., a subsidiary of ConocoPhillips, pled guilty to failure to maintain an oil record book aboard the T/V Polar Discovery, an 895 foot crude oil tanker...
YLG Files Employee Class Action Suit Against Best Buy2 Employees Subjected to Off-the-Clock Security Searches & Missed Breaks PHILADELPHIA – Oct. 17, 2007 – Eric L. Young, Esq., filed a lawsuit in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on behalf of a class of current and former Best Buy employees alleging violations of Pennsylvania state labor...
Fresenius Whistleblower: Judge Orders Def. to Pay $82 million Philadelphia, PA, May 26, 2011 – Egan Young, Attorneys-at-Law, has announced that United States District Judge William J. Haynes, Jr., awarded over $82 million to the United States government as the result of a qui tam case filed by Egan Young clients Julie Williams and Dr. John Martinez. (United...
New York is leading the way at preventing tax fraud at the state level becoming the first state to creates a reward for whistleblowers. The amendment to New York’s False Claims Act will provide for an award to the whistleblower so long as the defrauding taxpayer earns more than $1 million in annual net income...
Once again, another example of the limitless areas that can get a defendant into qui tam trouble: A whistleblower has accused pipe manufacturer JM Eagle (“World’s Largest Manufacturer of Plastic Pipe”) of falsifying test results concerning the quality of its products. The whistleblower, John Hendrix, claims that the company’s pipes have ruptured after one year...
YLG Files Employee Class Action Suit Against Best Buy PHILADELPHIA – Oct. 17, 2007 – Eric L. Young, Esq., filed a lawsuit in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on behalf of a class of current and former Best Buy employees alleging violations of Pennsylvania state labor laws. The lawsuit contends, among other things, that Pennsylvania...