• posted: May 10, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Record-High Whistleblower Awards,  U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently announced that it issued its largest whistleblower award ever, breaking the previous record of a $30 million award it handed out in Read More

• posted: May 07, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• protections from retaliation,  restore whistleblower protections,  Whistleblowing Professors

The Missouri state senate is debating a bill that would add some protections from retaliation to university faculty who serve as whistleblowers. State Sen. Ed Emery is sponsoring the bill, which Read More

• posted: May 03, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• federal agencies

Two whistleblowers won their fight with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service over the amount of money they could claim from a pool they helped the agency collect. Their victory could Read More

• posted: Apr. 30, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• state employee

In a major decision for state and federal whistleblower law, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld a verdict worth $3.2 million in favor of an individual who was fired after exposing Read More

• posted: Apr. 26, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• critical medical documents,  Mecklenburg County,  Retaliation Lawsuit

A whistleblower has filed a lawsuit against Mecklenburg County, alleging she was fired after speaking out about years’ worth of patient records and other critical medical documents that were piled Read More

• posted: Apr. 23, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Public Hospital,  termination was retaliation,  United Medical Center

Julian Craig, who previously served as chief medical officer at United Medical Center, the only public hospital in Washington, D.C., recently filed a lawsuit against the facility and its management Read More

• posted: Apr. 19, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Conditions at Nursing Home,  Fargo’s Manor Care Nursing Home

A woman in North Dakota recently contacted a whistleblower hotline with concerns about the living conditions at Fargo’s Manor Care Nursing Home. According to the whistleblower, she has a family Read More

• posted: Apr. 16, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• child deaths in Arizona,  dental clinics,  Kool Smiles Dental Clinics

A national chain of dental clinics that has been connected to a pair of child deaths in Arizona will be forced to pay $23.9 million to the United States government Read More

• posted: Apr. 12, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• Restaurant Industry,  tips for restauranteurs

Many high-profile figures have been accused of sexual harassment within the last year and essentially seen their careers come to an end as a result. In this environment, it is Read More

• posted: Apr. 09, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Panama City Beach

A former employee for the Panama City Beach building department filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the city, alleging she was forced to endure a hostile work environment after reporting instances Read More

• posted: Apr. 05, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Drug Overcharge,  Recovery in the case

K-Mart Corp. agreed to pay $32.3 million to the federal government to settle lawsuit in which it was alleged that K-Mart’s pharmacies overcharged federal healthcare programs. The Department of Justice announced Read More

• posted: Mar. 19, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• False Claims Act lawsuits,  first to file

A pair of recent victories by defendants in False Claims Act lawsuits demonstrates the importance of speaking up quickly for whistleblowers who wish to share in fraud enforcement action recoveries. Two Read More

• posted: Mar. 08, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• whistleblower lawsuit,  allegations of fraud

According to a recently filed whistleblower lawsuit, Banc of California Inc., which is under investigation by federal regulators after being linked to a con man’s illegal activity, allegedly inflated its Read More

• posted: Mar. 01, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• SEC,  financial rewards,  whistleblower payouts

In 2010, the Dodd-Frank Act created whistleblower programs under the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). For the most part, it’s been the SEC’s Read More

• posted: Feb. 19, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• California healthcare policy,  SynerMed

This fall, an executive at SynerMed, one of the largest physician-practice management firms in the nation, provided a report to her bosses that detailed how the company had improperly denied Read More

• posted: Feb. 15, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• False Claim act,  fraudulent Medicare billing,  Healthcare fraud scheme

Information a whistleblower provided recently led to federal prosecutors bringing a fraud case against a dermatology chain in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. According to an announcement by the U.S. Attorney’s Read More