• posted: Nov. 23, 2015
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Dallas lawyers

A Florida judge recently shot down a False Claims Act lawsuit filed against Lincare Inc. after a plaintiff accused the medical supplies company of fraudulent billing and making a number Read More

• posted: Nov. 19, 2015
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• healthcare qui tam

There were 36 different qui tam cases related to healthcare law that have recently been unsealed, eight of which were filed just within the past year and others of which Read More

• posted: Nov. 16, 2015
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• admit wrongdoing,  patients and insurers

Allied Dental Practices of New Jersey agreed to pay a $420,000 settlement in a case involving a whistleblower who alleged the company simply deleted accounts in which it still owed Read More

• posted: Nov. 12, 2015
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Dodd-Frank Act,  whistleblowers,  wrongful termination,  reporting misconduct

Some new guidance provided by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this summer gave some additional reinforcement to the agency’s stance that whistleblowers who report misconduct through their company’s internal Read More

• posted: Nov. 09, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• accountability

A whistleblower case in Texas has come into the spotlight with allegations that a medical consulting firm is overbilling Medicare for in-home patient examinations. The details of the case were unsealed Read More

• posted: Nov. 05, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• awarding whistleblowers,  compensation,  guilty of fraud

A federal jury in New York recently awarded $1.6 million to a whistleblower who provided useful information in a retaliation lawsuit under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This award is consistent with Read More

• posted: Nov. 02, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• compensatory damages,  disclosures,  punitive damages

The court in Peasley v. Regis Corporation recently resulted in the jury presenting an $80,000 award in punitive damages to the plaintiff, Valerie Peasley, who worked as a hairstylist under Read More

• posted: Oct. 30, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Novartis settlement

In the lawsuit, a whistleblower alleged the drug company paid illegal and improper kickbacks to various pharmacies in exchange for the extra promotion of its prescription medication. The suit was Read More

• posted: Oct. 29, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Dallas attorney,  railroad industry complaints,  train accident prevention

According to a recent report from FairWarning, an investigative news website, the railroad industry is the harshest on whistleblowers in the United States, with more incidents of corporate whistleblower retaliation Read More

• posted: Oct. 29, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• blanket confidentiality,  employee misconduct,  ongoing investigation

Many businesses and organizations will, at some point, need to conduct an internal investigation into possible employee misconduct, whether it’s just as a preventive measure or if there’s actual suspected Read More

• posted: Oct. 26, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• civil litigation,  cooperation,  coordination,  problematic conduct

As soon as you become aware of a potential instance of wrongdoing, fraud or other type of problematic conduct in your organization, it’s important to decide how to report it Read More

• posted: Oct. 22, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• false claims,  federal courts jurisdiction

In a new, important development for how False Claims Act cases will proceed, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned precedent that had limited whistleblowers’ ability to recover money Read More

• posted: Oct. 19, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• absolute privilege,  allegations of defamation,  liability

The Texas Supreme Court recently reversed a ruling in a 2013 Texas Court of Appeals case involving Robert Writt and the Shell Oil Company. In 2007, the U.S. Department of Justice Read More

• posted: Oct. 15, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• appellate judges,  privacy of documents,  theft charges

The New Jersey Supreme Court recently ruled, in a 6-1 decision, that an employee of the North Bergen School Board may be indicted for taking documents from the district, even Read More

• posted: Oct. 12, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• illegal termination,  serious retaliations,  sworn affidavit

A former official from the Department of Veterans Affairs in Phoenix recently signed a sworn affidavit in which she testifies about some serious retaliations made against a whistleblower at the Read More

• posted: Oct. 08, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• complaint procedures,  harassing managers,  sexually harassment,  whistleblower lawyers

In a potentially significant case, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the prior decision in EEOC v. New Breed Logistics that in a retaliation claim, requests made to a Read More