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News & Analysis as of May 25, 2013

Wartime Suspension Of Limitations Act Suspends Statute Of Limitations In False Claims Act Cases

by BuckleySandler LLP on 5/6/2013

The False Claims Act (FCA), which allows both the government and whistleblowers to seek treble damages for claims of civil fraud on the United States, is a powerful tool. In the past two years, the government has aggressively...more

Courts of Appeals Continue to Limit the Government’s Aggressive False Claims Act Theories

by Chelsey Hadfield, Ty Howard, Jack Selden | Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 4/23/2013

This spring saw two significant victories for health care providers in the federal courts of appeals. In both cases, the courts rejected an aggressive government theory under the False Claims Act (FCA), the first related to...more

D.C. District Court Again Rules That Bad Debt at a Collection Agency is Allowable

by Leslie Demaree Goldsmith | Ober|Kaler on 4/4/2013

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia recently ruled, again, that a Medicare contractor is not permitted to disallow Medicare bad debts solely on the ground that the bad debt is still at an outside...more

A Federal Court's Lifeline to the Servicing Industry: No Physical Pain, no Negligent Servicing Claim

by Stephen Pudner | Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell &... on 2/15/2013

Keith Andress, Natalie Bolling and Stephen Pudner of Baker Donelson's Birmingham office were recently successful in having a mortgagor's claims seeking punitive damages against a major mortgage servicing company dismissed...more

False Claims Act Focus - December 2012

by Patton Boggs LLP on 12/22/2012

EDITOR’S NOTE - Recent reports from the Department of Justice that it collected a record $4.9 billion under the False Claims Act in fiscal year 2012 only underscore what we’ve been seeing in our practice and elsewhere in...more

Off the Beaten Path: The Federal Circuit Departs From Precedent in Lumbermens

by Sedgwick LLP on 11/19/2012

On August 23, 2011, the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area was surprised and shocked by an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8, leading to the evacuation and temporary closing of multiple public and private buildings, and...more

False Claims Act Focus - July 2012

by Patton Boggs LLP on 7/19/2012

EDITOR'S NOTE: Although the False Claims Act (FCA) is used most frequently to address allegations of fraud in health care and government procurement, the statute can be used quite effectively in any situation in which...more

Quinn Emanuel D.C. Litigation in Brief -- Spring 2012

by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP on 5/22/2012

In This Issue: The Supreme Court Confronts Controversies Overseas, But Will Congress Have the Final Word? Cover; When in Rome...(U.S Law Still Applies): Lessons of Wal-Mart, News Corp. & the Foreign Corrupt Practices...more