• posted: Jan. 11, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• Inc.,  KBR,  SEC Rule 21F-17

In April, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) initiated the very first enforcement action regarding employee confidentiality agreements against KBR, Inc., a technology and engineering company based in Houston, Texas. Read More

• posted: Jan. 07, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• anti-retaliation provisions of the MHRA

Not all reports of internal wrongdoing are technically considered whistleblower actions. In 2013, the First Circuit Court established an important “job duties” exception related to the Maine Whistleblowers Protection Act. Read More

• posted: Jan. 04, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act,  Dodd-Frank Act,  Dallas attorney,  Securities and Exchange Commission

In early August, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued some clarification on rules regarding internal whistleblower reporting. According to the agency, whistleblowers are to be protected under the Dodd-Frank Read More

• posted: Dec. 31, 2015
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights
• pay ratio

On August 5, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) officially approved what has been called the “CEO pay ratio disclosure rule” under the Dodd-Frank Act. This new rule will require Read More

• posted: Dec. 28, 2015
• Steve Kardell
• Employee Rights,  Whistleblower Litigation
• Alternative Dispute Resolution,  dallas att

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a number of new procedures and policies August 19, outlining how a new process will be established to resolve whistleblower disputes more Read More

• posted: Dec. 24, 2015
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Civil Investigative Demand,  Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010

According to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, anyone who receives an overpayment of Medicaid or Medicare funds report is required to pay back the amount of Read More

• posted: Dec. 21, 2015
• Steve Kardell
• New Legislation
• handguns,  House Bill 910,  Senate Bill 11,  Texas legislature

The Texas legislature recently passed two bills related to handgun possession in the state. House Bill 910 makes it legal for people to carry handguns openly. Senate Bill 11 allows Read More

• posted: Dec. 17, 2015
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Hanford,  U.S. Senate subcommittee,  URS Corp.

A former employee at a nuclear weapons cleanup project run by Hanford recently came to a $4.1 million settlement in a lawsuit alleging the company retaliated against him for speaking Read More

• posted: Dec. 14, 2015
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Albuquerque Public Schools,  New Mexico Public Education Department

Don Moya, the chief financial officer of the Albuquerque (New Mexico) Public Schools, recently filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the school district, its superintendent (Luis Valentino) and the New Mexico Read More

• posted: Dec. 10, 2015
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• CenseoHealth LLC,  Medicare Advantage

A Texas whistleblower has filed a lawsuit against CenseoHealth LLC and various other Medicare Advantage organizations, claiming they have been regularly overcharging Medicare for the in-home care they provide to Read More

• posted: Dec. 07, 2015
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Generally Accepted Accounting Practices,  Securities and Exchange Commission

The Fifth Circuit Court recently revived Wallace v. Tesoro Corp, a Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower complaint that had previously been dismissed by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas. Read More

• posted: Dec. 03, 2015
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• federal government,  Whistleblower Protection Act of 2010

Within the last five years, the federal government has introduced unprecedented levels of protection for whistleblowers and greater incentives for them to come forward in the form of record amounts Read More

• posted: Nov. 30, 2015
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act of 2015

In June, some members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee introduced a new measure entitled the Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act of 2015. This bill, if approved, would add some additional Read More

• posted: Nov. 26, 2015
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• fashion,  Giorgio Armani

The Giorgio Armani Corporation recently became the target of a whistleblower lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, by Norma Moreno, a former sales associate Read More

• posted: Nov. 23, 2015
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Dallas lawyers

A Florida judge recently shot down a False Claims Act lawsuit filed against Lincare Inc. after a plaintiff accused the medical supplies company of fraudulent billing and making a number Read More

• posted: Nov. 19, 2015
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• healthcare qui tam

There were 36 different qui tam cases related to healthcare law that have recently been unsealed, eight of which were filed just within the past year and others of which Read More