• 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: Feb. 17, 2022
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• financial crime,  whistleblower award,  SEC award

January was a busy month for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. According to the agency, it issued 11 whistleblower awards in the first month of 2022. This year marks the Read More

• posted: Feb. 15, 2021
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Securities Exchange Commission,  whistleblower award,  SEC award

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently announced an award of more than $6 million to be shared by a pair of whistleblowers who provided the agency with information Read More

• posted: Oct. 18, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• whistleblower lawsuit,  Dallas attorney,  whistleblower award,  whistleblower settlement

A now-closed hospital in Los Angeles filed a lawsuit against its insurance provider, alleging a denial of coverage to the facility while the hospital was publicly criticized for alleged illegal Read More

• posted: Oct. 04, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Dallas attorney,  SEC whistleblower award,  whistleblower award

The federal government has done an excellent job of incentivizing whistleblowers to come forward with information about securities laws violations in recent years, thanks to the numerous protections it has Read More

• posted: Aug. 30, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• Whistleblower Protection Act,  whistleblower,  whistleblower award

A jury in Sonoma County awarded $1.1 million to a whistleblower in a case against the Hanna Boys Center, ruling the whistleblower had been wrongfully terminated for raising his concerns Read More

• posted: Aug. 23, 2018
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• whistleblower,  whistleblower lawsuit,  whistleblower award

A former partner at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner stands accused of encouraging a client to hide information from the Federal Trade Commission revealing that his cybersecurity firm revealed patient data Read More

• posted: Sep. 25, 2017
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• SEC whistleblower program,  whistleblowers,  SEC,  whistleblower award

On February 28, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) awarded a whistleblower 20 percent of the sanctions paid in association with an enforcement action brought forth as a result Read More

• posted: Sep. 04, 2017
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation,  Fraud
• False Claims Act,  whistleblower laws,  academic fraud,  whistleblower award

A federal judge has ruled that a whistleblower lawsuit filed against Duke University and a pair of researchers can proceed. The lawsuit alleges the university and researchers were able to secure Read More

• posted: Feb. 16, 2017
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• whistleblower award

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently announced one of its latest whistleblower awards, worth more than $900,000. In this case, a whistleblower’s tip helped the SEC bring multiple 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: 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. 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. 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: May 19, 2016
• Steve Kardell
• Whistleblower Litigation
• whistleblower award

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) continues to hand out large financial awards to whistleblowers under its program created by the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010. Any whistleblower tips that Read More