As new areas of the law emerge, driven in part by technology and the free flow of information, federal agencies are becoming more aggressive with a tried and true carrot-and-stick approach to law and regulatory enforcement. ...more
7/15/2024
/ Corporate Misconduct ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Government Agencies ,
Incentives ,
Pilot Programs ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ,
Securities Violations ,
Voluntary Disclosure ,
Whistleblower Awards ,
Whistleblower Protection Policies ,
Whistleblowers ,
White Collar Crimes
On 7 February 2023, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) publicly reported the statistics for federal civil fraud recoveries in Fiscal Year (FY) 2022. While the DOJ emphasized in its accompanying press release that “the...more
In 2018, the False Claims Act (“FCA”) continued to be one of the federal government’s (“Government”) preferred civil fraud enforcement tools across a variety of industries. The healthcare industry, however, remained the...more
In Part 3 of our series on health care investigations, Mark Rush and John Lawrence discuss the process for external investigations conducted by federal and state governmental agencies, including in the context of qui tam...more
11/27/2018
/ Civil Investigation Demand ,
Dismissals ,
Employee Rights ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Frivolous Lawsuits ,
Government Agencies ,
Government Investigations ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Internal Investigations ,
Obstruction of Justice ,
Qui Tam ,
Search & Seizure ,
Search Warrant ,
Subpoenas ,
Whistleblowers
As Pennsylvania legislators work to resolve the budget impasse, proponents of enacting a Pennsylvania False Claims Act (“PA FCA”) targeting Medicaid continue to intensify their efforts in Harrisburg. Legislators may consider...more
Whistleblowers who work for the federal government recently received greater protection under federal law. These additional protections are significant and close prior gaps in the protections afforded by previous statutes and...more
In a pending False Claims Act (“FCA”) case involving allegations of noncompliance with the federal physician self-referral law (the “Stark Law”), 42 U.S.C. § 1395nn, the United States District Court for the Middle District of...more