• posted: Aug. 24, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• incorrect billing,  misconduct,  reporting misconduct

A lawsuit was filed June 12 against Einhorn Harris Ascher Barbarito & Frost PC for allegedly firing a former legal secretary for issuing a complaint about misconduct she believed was Read More

• posted: Aug. 20, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• false medical records,  unlawfully bill

Orbit Medical Inc. and Rehab Medical Inc. have agreed to pay a $7.5 million settlement at the close of a five-year whistleblower lawsuit. Two former employees of the companies filed Read More

• posted: Aug. 17, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• admission of liability,  overcharged,  poorly managed

The largest food vendor in Washington, D.C. will pay $19 million as a result of a whistleblower lawsuit claiming the company poorly managed and overcharged for public school meals. The lawsuit Read More

• posted: Aug. 13, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• fraudulent activity,  report misconduct,  Securities Exchange Commission,  whistleblower bounty program

The U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) has continued to prove that it will support the whistleblower bounty program. Since the program’s creation in 2011, the agency’s Office of the Whistleblower Read More

• posted: Aug. 10, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• formal complaint,  improper benefits,  unethical behaviors,  violating the rules

High school football coach Matt Strout has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against his former employer, Broward County Public Schools in south Florida. Strout alleges that following a complaint he issued Read More

• posted: Aug. 06, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• Americans with Disabilities Act,  obesity,  revoked job offer

The Eighth Circuit may reopen the 2013 case of a Kansas man who alleges the BNSF Railway Co. revoked his job offer because he was obese. The man, Melvin A. Read More

• posted: Aug. 03, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• billing claims,  whistleblower case

The U.S. Department of Justice has entered an Alabama False Claims Act trial in an effort to advise against a hospice chain’s request to divide its upcoming trial into two Read More

• posted: Jul. 30, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• Chapter 11 liquidation plan,  liquidating trust,  unlawful activity

On June 10, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) alleged that the proposed Chapter 11 liquidation plan of Liberty Medical Supply Inc. restricts the federal agency’s rights to recover funds it Read More

• posted: Jul. 27, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• disability leave

The Sixth Circuit of Appeals confirmed financial planner Michael Rhinehimer’s $250,000 award in his lawsuit against his former employer, U.S. Bancorp, for retaliation against a complaint. Through affirming Rhinehimer’s case, the Read More

• posted: Jul. 20, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• criminal conspiracy,  federal tax evasion,  file a whistleblower complaint

A tax court recently ruled that giving information to federal agencies and a division of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) before filing an Application for Award for Original Information (also Read More

• posted: Jul. 16, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• internal affairs,  protect your rights,  retaliation whistleblower claim

A police officer from Millburn, New Jersey was recently awarded $145,000 in a whistleblower lawsuit against the city. Sergeant Robert Ronceray initially filed the complaint in June 2013 against the Read More

• posted: Jul. 13, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• expense reimbursements,  unlawful termination

In 2012, a jury ruled that Bayer Corporation had unlawfully terminated one of its sales representatives, Mike Townsend, because he alerted the Arkansas Attorney General to incidents of physicians overbilling Read More

• posted: Jul. 09, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• investigative standards,  supporting evidence,  whistleblower investigations,  whistleblower protection laws

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued a new memo to clarify the investigative standards it has in place for its whistleblower investigations. There are more than 20 Read More

• posted: Jul. 02, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• isocyanate antibodies,  preliminary injunction

On May 7, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) succeeded in obtaining a preliminary injunction in a whistleblower claim, which kept the Lear Corporation from being able to retaliate Read More

• posted: Jun. 29, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Internal Revenue Service,  wrongdoing within a corporation

New evidence from nonprofit advocacy organizations Common Cause and the Center for Media and Discovery bolsters claims that the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has been falsely portraying itself as Read More

• posted: Jun. 18, 2015
• Martindale Admin
• Whistleblower Litigation
• internal company policies,  Sarbanes-Oxley violation,  violated federal law

The recent decision in the Pennsylvania case of Westawski v. Merck & Co, Inc. clarified a rule stating whenever someone files a whistleblower complaint about a Sarbanes-Oxley violation against a Read More