• posted: Apr. 28, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• SOX claim

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued a ruling in Hill v. Komatsu America Corp. that involved the dismissal of a Sarbanes-Oxley Act retaliation claim on Read More

• posted: Apr. 25, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• New Legislation
• supreme court

There’s a chance that the scope of the whistleblower protections outlined in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 could be analyzed and determined by the Read More

• posted: Apr. 21, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• amended complaints,  bid of dismissal

In the face of a bid for a dismissal, a government contractor for the city of Los Angeles is fighting to have his False Claims Act suit worth $1.4 billion Read More

• posted: Apr. 18, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• whistleblower retaliation claim

A New Hampshire federal jury recently hit Walmart with penalties upwards of $31 million for incidents of gender bias and illegal retaliation against a former pharmacist for the company who Read More

• posted: Apr. 14, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• truck safety concerns

A truck driver has received a $45,000 award after the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) determined the company that employed him violated a variety of Read More

• posted: Apr. 12, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• CFTC

On April 4, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) awarded a whistleblower with more than $10 million. This is just the third whistleblower award the CFTC has approved since its Read More

• posted: Apr. 11, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• volunteer witnesses

A former employee of Origin Energy has filed a whistleblower claim against the Australian company, alleging it organized a cover-up of some extremely serious compliance failures at many of its Read More

• posted: Apr. 07, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• website for whistleblowers

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) recently launched a brand-new website for the agency’s whistleblower program at www.whistleblower.gov. The new website offers a better interface for informing the general public Read More

• posted: Apr. 04, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• whistleblower retaliation claim

The director of an internal audit at MetroHealth in Ohio recently claimed two of the organization’s vice presidents and one employee’s relative had received free Botox injections and various other Read More

• posted: Mar. 31, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• SEC whistleblower award

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has awarded a whistleblower with more than $700,000 after the whistleblower’s reports to the agency resulted in a successful enforcement action. Three other whistleblowers Read More

• posted: Mar. 28, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• whistleblower protection,  Securities and Exchange Commission

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has done a lot to increase the protections afforded to whistleblowers in the last several years. In 2015, the agency took several steps to Read More

• posted: Mar. 24, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• whistleblower protection

It’s natural for employers to feel as if they are in a tough spot when it comes to protecting confidentiality related to whistleblower claims, as these actions inherently come from Read More

• posted: Mar. 21, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• overtime pay

Lansafe Appraisal Services Inc., an appraisal subsidiary of Bank of America, recently agreed to pay a $36 million settlement in a class action lawsuit in which the company was accused Read More

• posted: Mar. 17, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission

A former Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission manager filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the agency, alleging he was wrongfully terminated in 2008 after he reported various wasteful practices, politically motivated contracts and Read More

• posted: Mar. 14, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Kmart violation of False Claims Act

The Kmart Corporation has agreed to pay $1.4 million to settle allegations by the federal government that it violated the False Claims Act. The U.S. Department of Justice said Kmart Read More

• posted: Mar. 10, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• healthcare fraud,  Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

In the first-ever healthcare fraud lawsuit resulting from whistleblower actions under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a provider of home medical care services to medically vulnerable children has Read More