• posted: Aug. 31, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• financial fraud,  SEC,  SEC whistleblower award

The most recent SEC whistleblower award was a $3.8 million bounty to a whistleblower who offered information to the agency that resulted in a successful enforcement action. As always, the information Read More

• posted: Aug. 27, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• securities fraud

April 2020 was a busy month for the SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower and its whistleblower award program. The headline award of the month was a $27 million award to Read More

• posted: Aug. 24, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• social distancing

Brianna Flores, a 22-year-old woman from Mississippi, began working at a Maximus call center this spring in a position where she would be giving callers coronavirus guidelines coming directly from Read More

• posted: Aug. 20, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Wrongful Termination
• healthcare organization

A former employee of Ballard Health from Scott County, Virginia filed a lawsuit worth $3 million against the company, alleging the healthcare organization wrongfully terminated her after she blew the Read More

• posted: Aug. 17, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• wrongful termination,  covid-19,  workplace safety

A Detroit nurse was fired after posting a video on Facebook discussing the working conditions at her place of employment, Sinai Grace hospital. Now she has sued the hospital seeking Read More

• posted: Aug. 13, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• nysna

The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) filed three lawsuits, alleging failures on the part of several healthcare entities to protect nurses in COVID-19 wards. The defendants in the suit Read More

• posted: Aug. 10, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Graft and Corruption,  Whistleblower Litigation
• paycheck protection program,  ppp

A company filed a lawsuit against Wells Fargo on behalf of small business owners, alleging the bank took unfair actions against small businesses seeking COVID-19 relief through the Paycheck Protection Read More

• posted: Aug. 06, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• criminal conduct,  healthcare fraud,  covid-19

Healthcare fraud costs American taxpayers billions of dollars every year. With the widespread coronavirus pandemic, it is expected that much of the fraud in 2020 will be related to the Read More

• posted: Aug. 04, 2020
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  New Legislation
• whistleblower legislation

Members of the City Council for Long Island City developed new legislation to offer greater protections for whistleblowers who speak out about workplace safety issues during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Read More