• 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: Apr. 02, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• misconduct at universities,  Patterns of harassment,  Sexual Misconduct Allegations

The string of high-profile sexual misconduct allegations has not been limited to the entertainment and media industries. Columbia University has now lost two professors to accusations of sexual misconduct and Read More

• posted: Mar. 29, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• #metoo movement,  reporting incidents of harassment,  Sexual Harassment Allegation

The #metoo movement that sprang to the forefront of the news cycle in the latter half of 2017 helped empower victims of sexual harassment to share their stories and seek Read More

• posted: Mar. 26, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• Age Discrimination,  Facebook Job Ads,  Verizon

Verizon recently came under criticism with accusations of age discrimination in its Facebook marketing of job openings at the company. The advertisements used on Facebook intended to recruit applicants for financial Read More

• posted: Mar. 22, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Fraud
• AT&T,  Consumer Arbitration,  Ninth Circuit Court

In the case of Roberts v. AT&T Mobility, the Ninth Circuit court made a quick dismissal of a First Amendment challenge to consumer arbitration, finding there was no state action 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. 15, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• Company Culture,  safer workplace environment

The last year has seen countless powerful media and entertainment figures fall out of the limelight because of sexual harassment allegations. The #metoo conversation has made it necessary for employers Read More

• posted: Mar. 12, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• Banning NDAs,  Harm Women

Throughout 2017, we saw victims of sexual harassment become more empowered than ever before to come forward and tell their stories. But while many Americans begin to speak out and 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. 05, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• Facebook,  harassment,  best practices for whistleblower hotline reporting

In December, Facebook publicly released its internal company policy on harassment in the hopes that other companies would be able to learn from them. The idea, according to two executives 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. 27, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• New Legislation
• federal laws,  whistleblower retaliation,  OSC

Under federal law, it is illegal for agencies or offices to take any sort of action against an employee who reports wrongdoing or safety concerns. Of course, retaliation still unfortunately 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