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• Just a drop in the barrel….

  
  Cheshire Cat Photo Blog (... said the Cat: 'we're all mad here....') — Authority: 128
  Yesterday, the Justice Department announcd that San Ramon, California -headquartered Chevron Corporation will pay $45.5 million to resolve claims that it underpaid natural gas royalties to the government and Native Americans. The settlement stated that the underreporting occurred for OVER 20 YEARS, from ...
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• Don’t Get Bitten by Your Bird Dog

  
  How to Measure a Well-Run Automotive Finance F&I Department — Authority: 91
  A good article by Patty Covington Long-standing dealership practices aren’t necessarily legal dealership practices. Many of these questionable practices have been around for years - and often dealers keep using them, because “everyone does it.” Dealers sometimes don’t think twice or consider whether ...
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• Peter Rost Gets A Little Help From The Government

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 548
  For those who may not remember, Peter Rost is the controversial gadfly and former Pfizer exec who is locked in a whistleblower lawsuit with the big drugmaker over his allegations that Genotropin, a human growth hormone, was marketed for unapproved uses, such as combating aging in adults and treating short stature in ...
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• University of Phoenix settles whistleblowers fraud claim

  
  Whistleblower Protection Blog — Authority: 120
  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.  Hendrow and Behn were University of Phoenix employees.  They ...
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• Home Health Agencies Defrauded Medicaid

  
  North Country Gazette — Authority: 525
  NEW YORK—-Three home health agencies have entered into a settlement agreement resolving the Attorney General’s lawsuit against one of them and three whistleblower lawsuits that alleged the agencies defrauded the Medicaid program. This is the largest settlement the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit ...
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• Schering-Plough Pays $21M To Settle Fraud Claim

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 548
  The deal resolves allegations the drugmaker “deliberately inflated” the price of its Albuterol asthma med and other drugs, causing California’s Medicaid (Medi-Cal) program to overpay millions of dollars in pharmacy reimbursement, according to California attorney general Jerry Brown. “With healthcare costs ...
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• Health Care Fraud Lawyers Gather to Discuss Amendments to False Claims Act and Other Whistleblower Developments

  
  Whistleblower Lawyer Blog — Authority: 91
  Attorneys from across the country will gather tomorrow in Atlanta to discuss health care fraud and the 2009 amendments to the False Claims Act , the nations primary whistleblower statute. I am pleased to be on the panel discussing "False Claims Act Developments," moderated by Jack Boese of Fried Frank. This will be ...
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• Mass. 2nd-grader sent home for crucifix drawing

  
  TexasFred — Authority: 518
  Mass. 2nd-grader sent home for crucifix drawing TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) – An 8-year-old boy was sent home from school and ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation after he was asked to make a Christmas drawing and came up with what appeared to be a stick figure of Jesus on a cross, the child’s father said [...]
  2 weeks ago

• U.S. versus Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Dismissed by US Court of Appeals

  
  Policy and Medicine — Authority: 128
  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit this week issued a decision that restricts the use of the federal False Claims Act (FCA) as a tool for suppressing truthful speech about off-label uses of medical products approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).   The court’s dismissal of the ...
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• USA files Statement of Interest – supports Branch qui tam relators’ Motion to Strike defendant’s third party claims

  
  slabbed — Authority: 435
  Although the United States has declined to intervene and is therefore not a party to this action, the United States remains the real party in interest, entitled to share in any recovery that may be obtained in the qui tam action…The United States therefore has a substantial interest in ensuring that the FCA is ...
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• E.D.Pa. Holds False Claims Act Relator Cannot Toll Statute Of Limitations If Government Did Not Intervene

  
  Litigation and Trial - Max Kennerly — Authority: 419
  Another interesting statutory construction case arising from allegations scientists at Cornell University Medical College and Thomas Jefferson University "misrepresented the findings of their DNA research when they applied for National Institute of Health research grants and did not correct the misrepresentations on ...
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• Florida Medicaid Fraud Charges Settled by Drug Company

  
  Florida Injury Lawyer Blog — Authority: 111
  The state of Florida will receive $8.5 million from a settlement with Columbus, Ohio pharmaceutical company, Roxane Laboratories, to partially resolve a Medicaid fraud lawsuit filed in Leon County according to the state attorney general. The case is still pending against two other defendants, Dey and Warrick ...
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• Ninth Circuit Decision Emphasizes the Importance of a Well-Crafted FCA Settlement Agreement

  
  Government Contracts Blog — Authority: 111
  With its recent decision in Cell Therapeutics Inc. v. Lash Group Inc., 9th Cir., No. 08-35619, Nov. 18, 2009, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit took a dramatic step towards preserving the rights of False Claims Act (FCA) defendants. The courts ruling permits FCA qui tam defendants to seek ...
  3 weeks ago

• Court Agrees Whistleblower Suit Should Be Tossed

  
  Pharmalot — Authority: 548
  A new court ruling may have a significant impact on whisteblower lawsuits that focus on off-label marketing. Last Friday, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta upheld a dismissal of a 2004 lawsuit filed by two Solvay Pharmaceuticals sales reps, who alleged the drugmaker caused the federal ...
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• Delinquent Tax Filing is Better than Fraudulent Tax Filing - Nebraska Men Face 10 Years for Tax Fraud

  
  Tax Relief Tips from the Experts at Tax Resolution University — Authority: 131
  I would hope that everyone knows that filing a late, or delinquent, tax return is a much better choice than filing a false, fraudulent tax return.  Not everyone may know, however, that it is okay to file a delinquent tax return , no matter how late it is!  Tax Resolution Services , who has prepared ...
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• Off-Label Promotion and False Claims

  
  Drug and Device Law — Authority: 597
  We dont routinely follow qui tam litigation involving our clients. Its not something that we, personally, defend against. Its not our sandbox; qui tam trolls are the responsibility of other defense counsel. But we are interested in off-label use. Thus Hopper v. Solvay Pharmaceuticals , No. 08-15810, slip op. (11th ...
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• Another Misguided Argument In Favor Of Ashcroft v. Iqbal

  
  Litigation and Trial - Max Kennerly — Authority: 419
  Oh, Ashcroft v. Iqbal , will we ever stop blogging about you ? The newest online debate pits the class action defense lawyers at Drug & Device Law against University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Stephen Burbank at PENNumbra , the online supplement to UPenns Law Review. Beck and Herrmann open ...
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