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Hawaiian Electric Ignites Legal Fight Over Hawaii Wildfire Whistleblower

Hawaiian Electric has moved to quash a subpoena of an ex-employee who plaintiffs say has records of its knowledge about wildfire risks.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

SEC Continues Its Strong Focus on Rooting Out Whistleblower Impediments

In the past dozen years the SEC's whistleblower program has awarded about $100 million a year to tipsters. But the price is eternal vigilance over companies' agreements with employees, which sometimes include language impeding their rights to inform the government of wrongdoing. The article looks at how and why the SEC scrutinizes employment agreements and what it does when companies cross the line set down by Rule 21F-17(a), enacted under the Dodd-Frank Act.
12 minute read

Law.com

The West Virginia Supreme Court Splits on Public Policy Issue Following At-Will Employee's Termination

Justice C. Haley Bunn authored the majority opinion, while Justices John A. Hutchison wrote the dissenting opinion, joined by William R. Wooton, which argued that Jarrell's allegations "bear the hallmarks of an internal whistleblower claim and should have been allowed to proceed into the discovery phase for development."
7 minute read

National Law Journal

SEC Reports Nearly $5B in Financial Recovery in Fiscal 2023

"The investing public benefits from the Division of Enforcement's work as a cop on the beat," SEC Chair Gary Gensler said.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Whistleblower Says Utility Should Repay $382M in Federal Aid Given to Failed Clean Coal Plant

Kelli Williams, a former construction manager for Atlanta-based Southern Co., filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the company and its subsidiary Mississippi Power Co. in 2018. That lawsuit, unsealed Monday, alleges that the two firms defrauded the U.S. Department of Energy and state regulators in a failed quest to build a $7.5 billion power plant.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

The 2023 NLJ Awards: Professional Excellence—Litigation Departments of the Year

The NLJ takes the pulse of litigation departments in top law firms in our nation's capital.
1 minute read

Corporate Counsel

SEC Triggers Alarm Bells by Probing Separation Agreements That Discourage Whistleblowing

The agency unleashed a $10 million civil fine in one recent case, and went after a private company for the first time in another.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Feds, California Sue Georgia's Access Medical for Alleged Kickback Scheme

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.
1 minute read

Daily Report Online

Ga. Lawyers Get $13.75M Settlement for Feds, Patient in Cologuard Kickbacks Suit

"I feel proud that we were able to obtain it for Dr. [Niles] Rosen and the American taxpayers, but I believe that it could have been more had he not had to deal with the advisory opinion that was issued very late in the case and shortly before trial, which directly impacted our claims," said plaintiff attorney Brandon Peak of Peak Wooten McDaniel & Colwell in Columbus, Ga.
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

'Read the Tea Leaves': How Companies Can Steer Clear of Huge Penalties in Brutal Regulatory Climate

"We're seeing a very aggressive stance in this administration, where penalties that the SEC is assessing now really aren't tied to precedent, and they're much larger than they've been in the past," said Kelly Gibson, a partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius.
6 minute read

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