• posted: Jun. 02, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation

The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently ordered Pegasus Elite Aviation, a private aviation company, to pay an employee back wages and other costs Read More

• posted: May 24, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• whistleblower awards,  #metoo movement,  whistleblower reports

Best Lawyers recently had a thoughtful article in its “All Rise” newsletter in which they tied a seeming increase in whistleblower reports (specifically SEC whistleblower reports) to the #MeToo movement Read More

• posted: May 24, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• SEC,  SEC award,  $3 Million Whistleblower Award

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently issued three separate whistleblower awards totaling approximately $3 million. According to the commission, each of these awards featured whistleblowers who voluntarily provided Read More

• posted: May 19, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• whistleblower award,  CFTC,  CFTC Whistleblower Program

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recently announced an award of approximately $10 million to a whistleblower who provided unique information that prompted the opening of a CFTC investigation. The Read More

• posted: May 17, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• Mallinckrodt,  misreporting

The federal government, in conjunction with individual states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, recently settled a False Claims Act lawsuit against Mallinckrodt PLC, a pharmaceuticals company. The lawsuit alleged Read More

• posted: May 03, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• qui tam cases

The federal whistleblower programs at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have been the subject of quite a bit of praise for their Read More

• posted: Apr. 28, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• Bureau of Prisons,  Federal Prisons,  prison abuse

The federal Bureau of Prisons is under fire for a new set of scandals, including allegations staff and a warden routinely sexually abused inmates at a women’s prison. Now, whistleblowers Read More

• posted: Apr. 21, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• preparing to be a whistleblower,  whistleblower legal process,  whistleblowing drawbacks

There are quite a few potential incentives and advantages associated with becoming a whistleblower, not the least of which is the potential to earn some significant financial compensation. But as Read More

• posted: Apr. 19, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• whistleblower incentives

If you become aware of wrongdoing within your company or organization it can be an understandably difficult or uncomfortable decision to blow the whistle. But if you do decide to become Read More

• posted: Apr. 07, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic approximately two years ago there has been a steep increase in the number of whistleblower lawsuits filed against healthcare employers. With the significant rise Read More

• posted: Apr. 05, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• California Supreme Court

A recent opinion from the California Supreme Court makes it more difficult for employers to avoid or dismiss claims of whistleblower retaliation. The ruling came in the case of Wallen Lawson Read More

• posted: Mar. 31, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• whistleblower awards,  SEC,  Securities and Exchange Commission

On February 10, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced a pair of proposed changes to some of the rules that govern the agency’s successful whistleblower program. The proposed amendments are Read More

• posted: Mar. 29, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• whistleblower awards,  SEC,  securities fraud

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a $600,000 whistleblower award on Tuesday, February 22 to an individual who voluntarily submitted unique, credible information to the agency that led Read More

• posted: Mar. 15, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• settlement,  healthcare fraud,  medicare false claims

Brockton Urology Clinic LLC in North Easton, Massachusetts recently agreed to pay $100,000 to settle claims it submitted false claims to Medicare in violation of federal law. The case is yet Read More

• posted: Mar. 10, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation,  Wrongful Termination
• employer retaliation,  sexual abuse,  cover up

San Jose State University (SJSU) recently agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging a coverup of sexual abuse allegations. The claimant was a whistleblower who targeted the suit against the university Read More

• posted: Mar. 01, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Securities Exchange Commission,  SEC whistleblower award,  U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

On January 6, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) handed down its first whistleblower award of the year, a sizable $13 million pot to a whistleblower who provided the Read More