A federal court in California refused to dismiss a False Claims Act suit that claims pharmaceutical companies Allergan and Adamas misled the U.S. Patent Office into issuing “invalid” patents protecting Alzheimer’s drugs Namenda XR and Namzaric, which allegedly allowed the companies to have a monopoly.
Read moreThe Fourth Circuit vacated and remanded a ruling granting state agencies qualified immunity in false claims allegations concerning money for expanding rural broadband in West Virginia because the fraud allegations implied money had been taken from the government.
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Legal experts say a new ruling out of the Fourth Circuit could mark the end of state agency officials claiming qualified immunity when they are accused of defrauding the federal government.
Read moreScience Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a Reston, Virginia-based defense contractor, has paid $5,982,865 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act in an Army contract.
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Land developer Five Point Holdings hit Tetra Tech and the U.S. government with separate lawsuits for special damages Thursday for their roles in the Hunters Point Naval shipyard scandal.
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A California-based NASA contractor agreed to pay $375,000 to settle whistleblower claims that it falsely certified support equipment for a rocket launch system conformed to the agency’s specifications.
Read moreThe United States claims Austin Tele-Services Partners dba Genesis ATS sold the U.S. military and other agencies used Cisco Systems products as new, and “gray market”-sourced products as authentic Cisco products; it seeks treble damages.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss a fired employee’s complaint that Moog Control System (Shanghai) fired him for complaining that the company “was buying parts for United States military airplanes from a Chinese supplier that was cutting corners and hiding the fraud with false documentation.”
Read morePacific Health Corp. and Los Angeles Doctors Hospital Corp. must reimburse Medicare and Medi-Cal to the tune of $560,000, a federal judge ruled, siding with a nurse who said the defendants improperly committed patients to locked psychiatric units in exchange for kickbacks.
Read moreAdvancing a suit where a defense contractor is said to have taken advantage of a legally blind official, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that the whistleblower claims were not brought too late.
Read moreThe United States claims that JD Equipment de Mexico and South Point Equipment LLC submitted fraudulent documents to the government to draw $1.3 million from an insured line of credit.
Read moreAdvancing false-claims allegations that pharmaceutical companies paid kickbacks to providers that prescribe its anti-inflammatory drug, a federal judge found that one could conclude the government’s “true motivation [in moving to dismiss] is animus toward the relator.”
Read moreA government contractor said to have lined its pockets in part by tricking a legally blind official appeared unlikely Tuesday to have the Supreme Court nix claims against it under the False Claims Act.
Read moreCovidien LP will pay $17.5 million to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act to induce physicians to buy its vein ablation products, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco said.
Read moreA technician who was critical of how United Airlines serviced military-transport planes persuaded the Fourth Circuit this week to let his retaliation claim take flight.
Read moreThe Justice Department said Tuesday it will intervene in a whistleblower lawsuit accusing California health care provider Sutter Health and its affiliate Palo Alto Medical Foundation of violating the False Claims Act by faking the health statuses of Medicare Advantage Plan enrollees.
Read moreBritish Airways and Iberia Airlines agreed Tuesday to pay $5.8 million to settle claims that they lied to the U.S. Postal Service about what time they delivered foreign mail leaving the United States.
Read moreDefense contractor Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation agreed Friday to pay more than $25 million to settle claims it violated the False Claims Act by inflating employees’ hours working on a defense contract in the Middle East.
Read moreMuch-sued DaVita Medical Holdings will pay $270 million to settle claims by the Justice Department that it overbilled Medicare in violation of the False Claims Act.
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