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By Charles Toutant | August 17, 2017
Honeywell International faces a suit from a former vice president who said she was hired to increase diversity at the executive level but contends she was hired as window dressing.
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By Max Mitchell | August 16, 2017
Management company U.S. Facilities was responsible for maintaining the elevators that crashed in an incident at the Criminal Justice Center last year, but a recently-filed whistleblower case claims it ignored warnings about their safety.
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By Adam Pollock and Randall Fox | August 16, 2017
Adam Pollock and Randall Fox write that in a little-noticed provision at the end of New York's False Claims Act, the New York legislature provided for a lower pleading hurdle when asserting violations of New York's FCA in state court. Accordingly, whistleblowers should strongly consider filing separate federal and state qui tam actions (or seeking to remand improperly removed cases) in order to benefit from the New York FCA pleading standard at the dismissal stage.
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By Scott Flaherty | August 14, 2017
Grant & Eisenhofer has sued a former whistleblower client and two other law firms, alleging the whistleblower and her current lawyers conspired to strip Grant & Eisenhofer of its fee on a $280 million settlement.
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By Michael Battle, Roscoe Howard and Patrick Miles | August 10, 2017
The early months of the Trump administration have brought about the resignations of the two most prominent lawyers behind the U.S. Department of Justice's…
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By C. Ryan Barber | August 7, 2017
Two weeks after being ordered to reinstate a branch manager fired for raising concerns about improper sales practices, Wells Fargo & Co. has…
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By C. Ryan Barber | August 7, 2017
Two weeks after being ordered to reinstate a branch manager fired for raising concerns about improper sales practices, Wells Fargo & Co. has acknowledged it could have a much larger whistleblower problem in the aftermath of a $185 million settlement with federal regulators and Los Angeles last year over allegations the bank opened up to 2.1 million unauthorized accounts.
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By R. Robin McDonald | August 4, 2017
Wells Fargo & Co. has agreed to settle a 12-year-old whistleblower case accusing the bank of cheating veterans by charging them illegal fees when refinancing their home loans.
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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | August 4, 2017
Terminated CPA failed to state a claim under §922 of the Dodd-Frank act when she alleged she was terminated for reporting accounting irregularities and inaccurate tax information documents because she did not adequately plead that she engaged in protected conduct under the Sarbanes-Oxley act since she did not assert that the fraud she reported had any effect on her former employer's public company clients. Motion to dismiss granted.
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By Cogan Schneier | July 27, 2017
The court allowed allegations that DePuy Orthopaedics sold defective hip implants to doctors who sought government reimbursement for them.
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