• posted: Aug. 15, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• OSHA whistleblower protection program

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), CSX Transportation Inc. retaliated against an employee in Selkirk, New York, who reported internal safety concerns to company management. The employee was Read More

• posted: Aug. 11, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• New Legislation
• trade secrets law

On May 11, President Obama signed the brand-new Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA). This new legislation establishes a federal trade secrets law and has the added benefit of Read More

• posted: Aug. 08, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• $60M whistleblower award,  FHA-backed mortgages

M&T Bank must pay $64 million to the federal government to resolve a whistleblower case, and at least $9.6 million of that settlement will go to a former employee from Read More

• posted: Aug. 04, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• whistleblower award

The University of Oregon settled a lawsuit with a former police officer, agreeing to pay the man $1 million to bring the case to an end. A federal jury found in Read More

• posted: Aug. 01, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• SEC whistleblower award

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently announced a $3.5 million whistleblower award, the first of three awards handed out within the span of a week. The whistleblower was an Read More

• posted: Jul. 28, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• whistleblower award

According to federal safety officials, a company in Illinois must pay $190,547 in damages and back wages to a safety manager as the result of a whistleblower case that stemmed Read More

• posted: Jul. 25, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• employer retaliation

A former sergeant at the Southern Regional Jail near Charleston, West Virginia has filed a lawsuit against the state’s Regional Jail Authority, alleging employer retaliation. The man, Jason Hefner, says he Read More

• posted: Jul. 21, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• SEC whistleblower award

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced in mid-May that it will award a whistleblower $5 million to $6 million for the person’s assistance in a recent investigation. The Read More

• posted: Jul. 18, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• whistleblower award

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will hand out a total of $450,000 split between two individuals who tipped off the agency to an incident of corporate wrongdoing and Read More

• posted: Jul. 14, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• whistleblower retaliation

A new report from the Inspector General of the United States Department of Defense confirms allegations of retaliation against an officer in the West Virginia National Guard after her sexual Read More

• posted: Jul. 11, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• whistleblower award

A former employee of the Colorado Department of Corrections was awarded $280,000 in a settlement after filing a whistleblower complaint accusing officials in state prisons of fudging figures about mentally Read More

• posted: Jul. 07, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• SEC actions against businesses

A new report published by the NYU Pllack Center for Law & Business and Cornerstone Research indicates that the number of actions the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has brought Read More

• posted: Jul. 04, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• best practices for whistleblower hotline reporting

There are currently more whistleblower protections than ever before in the United States, making it absolutely necessary for public agencies and private companies to have processes in place for whistleblowers Read More

• posted: Jun. 30, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Graft and Corruption
• fraud allegations

The CEO of the Newfoundland and Labrador English School District (NLESD) in Canada recently divulged that the district is currently the subject of two separate investigations for fraud. CEO Darrin Pike Read More

• posted: Jun. 27, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• OECD

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recently released a new report entitled “Committing to Effective Whistleblower Protection.” The publication contains information on the variety of whistleblower protection statutes in Read More

• posted: Jun. 23, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• $10 million whistleblower award

In April, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commissoin (CFTC) announced its largest whistleblower award yet: a sum of more than $10 million to a person whose information led to major Read More