Wackenhut accused of billing government for services not provided
News 4 in Nashville ran a story that Wackenhut has billed the government for security services that were not provided. If this is true they have billed us as tax payers for nothing. I think we would...
View ArticleMemphis Tennessee Whistleblower’s False Claims (Qui Tam) Lawsuit Cites...
Medtronic, the major medical device maker who has appeared numerous times this year in Tennessee Law Blog’s defective drugs and medical device blogs, now finds itself in a whistleblower (False Claims)...
View ArticleWhistleblowers Help Federal Government Recover $694.5 Million from Drug and...
The 2008 fiscal year concluded with $694.5 million settlements from medical device manufacturers and drug pharmaceutical companies accused of misusing government moneys. Of this $694.5 million, $644.5...
View ArticleLenders Who Made Bad Loans Are Being Sued by Their Investors
Subprime loan fraud litigation continues to find new classes of plaintiffs. In the latest class actions, lenders are being sued by their investors. People who bought stock in Countrywide Home Loans and...
View ArticleNatrecor’s Qui Tam Lawsuit, Latest in Fed’s Medicare Fraud Recovery Cases
Johnson & Johnson executives received bad news last week when the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) stated it would pursue two False Claims Act (whistleblower) lawsuits regarding the heart drug...
View ArticleFalse Claims Act (Qui tam Law) under Review, Congress to Expand Whistleblower...
To ensure stimulus package moneys are properly used, the False Claims Act may see its greatest expansion since the False Claims Act Amendments of 1986. The False Claims Act, also known as Lincoln’s Law...
View ArticleTwo Major Workplace Lawsuits in News
Costco employees have filed a unpaid wages lawsuit in California stating the company had repeatedly violated the state’s wage and labor law. Costco faces allegations similar to those Tennessee Law Blog...
View ArticleHistoric Qui Tam Settlement Whistleblowers to Share $102 Million for...
Pzifer’s off-label marketing of their anti-inflammatory drug Bextra will cost the pharmaceutical company a record-breaking $2.3 billion, $102 million of which will be split by five qui tam relators...
View ArticleMassive Drug Recall and Whistleblower (False Claims) Lawsuit Impact...
Stomach sickness and a strange smell forced Johnson and Johnson (J&J) division McNeil Consumer Healthcare to finally recall from market a total of 27 products, including Tylenol, Benadryl, Rolaids...
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