False Claims-Qui Tam

WBAL-TV of Baltimore reports that the Maryland legislature is moving forward with a bill to create a "Little FCA" in Maryland.  Modeled on the federal False Claims Act (FCA), and looking for the benefits of the Grassley Amendment, Little FCAs...

Federal Judge Richard W. Roberts has denied a motion to dismiss a major suit claiming the Japanese manufacturer Toyobo sold millions of dollars of defective bulletproof vests. Dr. Aaron Westrick filed the suit under the Federal False Claims Act in...

Pipe manufacturer JM Eagle is lashing out against whistleblower John Hendrix, claiming that he spoke to a prospective witness and offered that witness a kick-back. JM Eagle has made the claim in an interview with industry magazine PlasticsNews. Meanwhile, Hendrix's...

Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has introduced a bill that will make changes to the False Claims Act (FCA) in response to court decisions that limited the rights of whistleblowers.  The main features of S. 2964 (introduced January 28, 2010) would...

Albert D. Campbell worked for Lockheed Martin from 1981 to 1995. He worked as a financial analyst, and was promoted in 1989 to chief of cost control for the $3.5 billion LANTIRN project. The LANTIRN project built navigation and targeting...

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced a settlement with the University of Phoenix over its abuses in student recruitment.  The university will pay $67.5 million, of which $19 million will go to two whistleblowers, Mary Hendow and Julie Behn. ...

"Securities fraud," said the state official and with that about 20 attorneys, all experts in False Claims Act litigation, fell off their chairs.

A whistleblowers' lawsuit has prompted the State of California to sue State Street Bank for over $200 million.  The suit alleges, and California's Attorney General has confirmed, that State Street cheated California pension funds by overcharging for foreign exchange transactions. ...

U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler has rejected employer attempts to constrict the whistleblower protections of the federal and District of Columbia False Claims Acts.  In a decision issued last week, she corrected a judgment from a jury verdict, and overruled...

In 2003, John Kopchinski was earning $125,000 a year selling the drug Bextra for Pfizer.  He had a baby son, and his wife was pregnant with twins.  The Gulf War veteran says that, "In the Army, I was expected to...