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New York Law Journal

False Claims Act Liability for Cyber Breaches: Limiting the Risk

The U.S. Department of Justice is using the False Claims Act to turn up the heat on companies who fail to report they've been hacked. "Now is the time for organizations to develop strategies to ensure cybersecurity compliance and manage and mitigate False Claims Act risks related to inevitable shortfalls in cybersecurity," writes Laura K. Schwalbe.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

Game-Changing Expansion of New York Whistleblower Protection: Will Your Company Be Ready When This Whistle Blows?

Arguably, amended New York Labor Law §740 is now the broadest and most powerful whistleblower protection law in the United States.
10 minute read

New York Law Journal

One Year Later: Addressing Whistleblower Risks Under the AMLA

A discussion of the Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA), including background, key distinctions between it and the SEC's whistleblower program, and tips on how to prepare for whistleblower risks arising under the Act.
8 minute read

The Recorder

Kruger Leads Unanimous Court on Standard for Rejecting Whistleblower Retaliation Claims

The unanimous decision was the first authored by Associate Justice Leondra Kruger since she become a potential frontrunner to replace U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Stoel Rives Partner Among Biden's Latest Batch of US Attorney Picks

S. Lane Tucker, an Alaska-based partner at Stoel Rives since 2010, was nominated to be U.S. attorney in Alaska.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Will the Apparent Rise in False Claims Act Actions Target Private Equity?

With the explosion of PE investment in the health care and life sciences industries and with what's happening at the DOJ and in Congress regarding corporate fraud enforcement, we expect the increase in new FCA matters will continue into 2022 at breakneck speed and a portion of that will focus on PE.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Narrow High Court Decision Finds Whistleblower Payments Are Subject to Pa. Taxes

The whistleblower, Fox Chapel resident Edward O'Donnell, had received over $34 million in 2014 as a qui tam payment for a federal False Claims Act action he brought against the financial institute where he worked.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

The SEC Whistleblower Program's First Decade: $1 Billion in Awards and Counting

In its 10-year existence the SEC's whistleblower program has recovered nearly $5 billion in actions that were initiated or assisted by whistleblower tips and paid over $1 billion in awards to those whistleblowers.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

PruittHealth Settles With Feds for $4.2M Over Alleged False Claims Act Violations

According to a news release, the federal government believes that from Jan. 1, 2011, through June 30, 2012, Pruitt "knowingly submitted claims to Medicare and Medicaid for home health services that were not eligible for reimbursement."
5 minute read

Law.com

Archdiocese of New Orleans Agrees to Pay $1M to Resolve DOJ Suit Over False Hurricane Katrina Damage Claims

The lawsuit was initially filed in 2016 under whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act by Robert Romero, a project specialist at AECOM.
2 minute read

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