Shauna Itri of Seeger Weiss. Shauna Itri of Seeger Weiss.

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Shauna Itri, Seeger Weiss

Itri has received numerous legal awards, including being named to the 2022 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America list. The award honors Itri's work in several notable cases. In one, medical device company Covidien agreed to pay $13 million to resolve a False Claims Act lawsuit filed by Itri on behalf of her client, a former Covidien employee, who blew the whistle on a kickback scheme designed to defraud Medicare programs. In another False Claims Act lawsuit, genetics testing company Renaissance RX (or RenRX) agreed to pay $42.6 million to resolve six different whistleblower lawsuits that contained allegations of payments to providers in exchange for their ordering RenRX's genetic tests, inappropriate payments to independent sales representatives which violated the anti-kickback statute, and lack of medical necessity of the genetic testing. Notably, RenRX also consented to a 25-year exclusion from all federal health care programs.