• posted: Aug. 31, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• gas exploration,  oil and gas,  Outer Continental Shelf,  report violations

Several lawmakers in Congress are proposing a bill to expand whistleblower protections for those in the oil industry working on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). These workers are playing key Read More

• posted: Aug. 27, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• filing a report,  unsafe guardrails

A Texas federal judge issued a $663 million verdict against Trinity Industries Inc. following a jury’s decision that the company was guilty of committing fraud against the U.S. government by Read More

• posted: Aug. 24, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• incorrect billing,  misconduct,  reporting misconduct

A lawsuit was filed June 12 against Einhorn Harris Ascher Barbarito & Frost PC for allegedly firing a former legal secretary for issuing a complaint about misconduct she believed was Read More

• posted: Aug. 20, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• false medical records,  unlawfully bill

Orbit Medical Inc. and Rehab Medical Inc. have agreed to pay a $7.5 million settlement at the close of a five-year whistleblower lawsuit. Two former employees of the companies filed Read More

• posted: Aug. 17, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• admission of liability,  overcharged,  poorly managed

The largest food vendor in Washington, D.C. will pay $19 million as a result of a whistleblower lawsuit claiming the company poorly managed and overcharged for public school meals. The lawsuit Read More

• posted: Aug. 13, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• fraudulent activity,  report misconduct,  Securities Exchange Commission,  whistleblower bounty program

The U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) has continued to prove that it will support the whistleblower bounty program. Since the program’s creation in 2011, the agency’s Office of the Whistleblower Read More

• posted: Aug. 10, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• formal complaint,  improper benefits,  unethical behaviors,  violating the rules

High school football coach Matt Strout has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against his former employer, Broward County Public Schools in south Florida. Strout alleges that following a complaint he issued Read More

• posted: Aug. 06, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• Americans with Disabilities Act,  obesity,  revoked job offer

The Eighth Circuit may reopen the 2013 case of a Kansas man who alleges the BNSF Railway Co. revoked his job offer because he was obese. The man, Melvin A. Read More

• posted: Aug. 03, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• billing claims,  whistleblower case

The U.S. Department of Justice has entered an Alabama False Claims Act trial in an effort to advise against a hospice chain’s request to divide its upcoming trial into two Read More