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• 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

• posted: Feb. 12, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Digital Realty Trust v. Somers

The U.S. Supreme Court announced it will take up a case that could determine if corporate whistleblowers have the same protections against retaliation when they report their concerns about misconduct Read More

• posted: Feb. 08, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• SEC whistleblower award

On November 30, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Office of the Whistleblower announced a new award of more than $16 million paid to two whistleblowers. Each received an Read More

• posted: Jan. 25, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• retaliation suit,  Employees protected against retaliation

A former engineer at Raytheon filed a $3.56 million lawsuit alleging wrongful termination and retaliation for having reported his concerns about timecard fraud to ethics officials within the company. However, Read More

• posted: Jan. 22, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• taking advantage of position

Over the past several months, we have seen high-powered, A-list celebrities and public officials toppled by allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct. Many of these cases involved powerful men taking Read More

• posted: Jan. 18, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,  Filing a whistleblower claim,  whistleblowers can alert the government

In a news release posted on its website, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) reports it won nearly $500 million for victims of workplace discrimination in 2017. It also Read More

• posted: Jan. 11, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• Lawson's case,  whistleblowing protection,  whistleblowing retaliation

A former executive for Fidelity Investments has sued the mutual funds company, claiming it retaliated against her after she blew the whistle on potential fraud to investors. The whistleblower, Jackie Hosang Read More