Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 306: Listen and Learn -- Intentional Torts: Defamation
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 104: Listen and Learn -- Intentional Torts: Defamation
Key Points - Recently three circuit courts have considered when opinions can be false under the FCA. - Although the circuits disagree regarding whether plaintiff must establish “objective falsity” to assert an FCA...more
Tuesday’s ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in United States v. AseraCare is a win for hospice and other health care providers who have long argued that a mere difference of clinical...more
Back in March of this year, in U.S. ex rel. Paradies v. AseraCare, Inc., a district court in Alabama granted summary judgment to a defendant hospice finding that an expert physician’s disagreement with a certifying...more
In a $200 million False Claims Act (FCA) litigation with certain twists and turns, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama recently found that the federal government failed to show that claims submitted...more
In November 2015, we published a client advisory on the closely watched AseraCare litigation and its potential impact on the falsity element under the False Claims Act (FCA). AseraCare involves allegations that a hospice...more