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.
By C. Ryan Barber | July 27, 2017
After a nearly three-month dry period for whistleblower bounties, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this week awarded a pair of tipsters who helped the agency bring successful enforcement actions. To approve the latest award, the SEC made an exception that it has used at least once before to reward a tipster who began working with the agency before the 2010 passage of Dodd-Frank reform law.
By Sue Reisinger and C. Ryan Barber | July 25, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday awarded nearly $2.5 million to a government worker who helped regulators launch an investigation and eventually crack down on a company's misconduct, the first such whistleblower bounty issued to an employee of a government agency.
By P.J. D'Annunzio | July 25, 2017
A suit in which a former patent attorney for French cosmetics giant L'Oréal alleged he was fired for standing up for ethical legal practices was dismissed in its early stages. But now a federal appeals court has reinstated the case, saying the claims "were more than skin-deep."
By Michael Booth | July 21, 2017
A New Jersey appeals court has upheld the award of almost $230,000 to attorney for the city of Orange who was fired after he refused to waive a workers' compensation lien on a city employee.
By Charles Toutant | July 21, 2017
A federal judge has awarded legal fees to a hospital as the prevailing party in an ex-employee's whistleblower claim after the plaintiff could not name any laws or regulations broken by the defendant.
By C. Ryan Barber | July 21, 2017
The U.S. Department of Labor on Friday ordered Wells Fargo & Co. to reinstate a former branch manager fired for blowing the whistle on three subordinates who were opening new accounts for customers without their knowledge—the conduct at issue in the bank's $185 million settlement last year with federal regulators and the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 7, 2017
Plaintiff's whistleblower and §1983 suit against the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and a state representative in her official capacity was barred by Eleventh Amendment immunity but his action against representative in her personal capacity for firing him after he reported the alleged misuse of state funds to promote representative's church was not barred. Motion to dismiss granted in part and denied in part.
By P.J. D'Annunzio | July 6, 2017
Drugmaker Allergan has agreed to pay the federal government and several states $13 million to settle whistleblower claims that it provided business consulting and services to doctors as a way of encouraging them to prescribe the company's eye care products.
By P.J. D'Annunzio | June 30, 2017
Drugmaker Allergan has agreed to pay the federal government and several states $13 million to settle whistleblower claims that it provided business consulting and services to doctors as a way of encouraging them to prescribe the company's eye care products.
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