• posted: Oct. 17, 2023
• Steve Kardell
• Graft and Corruption,  Whistleblower Litigation
• employer retaliation,  retaliation,  regulatory compliance,  ethics

Whistleblowers are key in uncovering fraud, waste and abuse at companies and organizations. Recently, the Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI) conducted its annual global survey. The results offer an overview Read More

• posted: Jul. 19, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• retaliation,  discrimination,  adverse action

An “adverse employment action” such as wrongful termination, denial of a raise or promotion, denial of benefits or assignment to less-attractive duties could play an important role in a whistleblower’s Read More

• posted: Mar. 18, 2021
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• workplace retaliation,  retaliation,  discrimination,  Discrimination Claim

A former account executive at Alliance Healthcare Services in Irvine, California claims she was fired as retaliation for requesting reduced hours to accommodate the demands of her breast cancer treatment, Read More

• posted: Oct. 09, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• whistleblower protection,  retaliation,  Medicare Fraud

Josh Valdez, a former executive for a subsidiary of Aveta Inc., sued the company, claiming it had spent years engaged in a scheme to defraud Medicare of hundreds of millions Read More

• posted: Sep. 14, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Graft and Corruption,  Whistleblower Litigation
• retaliation,  falsifying reports,  covid-19

The designer of Florida’s COVID-9 dashboard recently filed a whistleblower complaint against the Florida Department of Health after being fired for insubordination. The former department employee, Rebekah Jones, claims she was Read More

• posted: Dec. 17, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Whistleblower Protection Act,  whistleblower protections,  whistleblowers,  retaliation,  Dallas attorney

U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) recently introduced a bill that would provide greater protections to whistleblowers against suspension, denial or revocation of security clearances as a form of retaliation for Read More

• posted: Dec. 13, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• whistleblowers,  retaliation,  wrongful termination,  whistleblower cases,  Dallas attorney

A police officer from Clementon, New Jersey, recently filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the city and top law enforcement officials. The plaintiff claims the police chief, Charles Grover, retaliated against Read More

• posted: Feb. 17, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Graft and Corruption
• retaliation

Shortly after Chrystal Thierry refused to approve some extremely high pay raises for several top administrators within the Dallas Independent School District, she says she became the victim of retaliation. Read More

• posted: Sep. 04, 2014
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights
• retaliation,  whistleblower

In 2010, Paula Pedene helped reveal a scandal in the Phoenix Veterans Affair Hospital revolving around mismanagement that ultimately led to the hospital being $11.4 million short in its budget. Read More