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Fourth Circuit Allows United Airlines Whistleblower Retaliation Claim to Proceed

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals recently reinstated a whistleblower claim filed by a former employee of United Airlines who claims he was fired after repeatedly issuing complaints about the Read More

Florida Healthcare Organization Faces Federal Whistleblower Lawsuit for Medicare Fraud Allegations

A former auditor for Lee Health alleges in a federal whistleblower lawsuit that the Florida hospital system routinely defrauded Medicaid and Medicare by inflating doctor’s bills to drive more referrals Read More

Study Indicates Whistleblowers Indicate a Healthy Company Culture

The Harvard Business Review recently published research about whistleblowers in the United States. It led to the conclusion that whistleblowers, while they may often herald corporate disaster, are actually indicative Read More

Curo Health Services Subsidiary Settles Whistleblower Lawsuit for $5.9 Million

SouthernCare Inc., a subsidiary of Curo Health Services, recently agreed to pay $5.9 million to settle a federal whistleblower lawsuit alleging the company submitted unnecessary or insufficiently documented Medicare claims. SouthernCare Read More

Federal Government Joins Hospital Whistleblower Lawsuit

The U.S. federal government announced it will join a lawsuit against a hospital in West Virginia. The lawsuit alleges the hospital improperly issued payments and kickbacks to doctors under the Read More

Sprint Will Pay $330 Million to Settle Whistleblower Tax Fraud Case

Telecommunications giant Sprint recently agreed to settle a long-running whistleblower lawsuit regarding incidents of tax fraud to the tune of $330 million. The lawsuit alleged Sprint had been committing tax Read More

Omaha Doctors Allege Wrongful Termination from Children’s Hospital

A pair of surgeons from Omaha filed a lawsuit against the city’s Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, claiming they were wrongfully suspended and then forced to resign certain privileges after Read More

Home Depot Whistleblower Files Lawsuit Alleging Retaliation, Defamation

A 65-year-old former employee of Home Depot has filed a lawsuit against the company, claiming that he was punished for acting as a whistleblower in helping reveal the company’s illegal Read More

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