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This past week, the Department of Justice announced a $7.3 million settlement it reached with U.S. Renal Care, an owner and operator of outpatient dialysis facilities throughout the United States. The settlement resulted from a qui-tam lawsuit filed in June 2008, which accused the Dialysis Corporation of America (DCA), acquired by U.S. Renal Care in [...]
Earlier this month C.R. Bard Inc., a New Jersey based corporation that develops, manufactures, and markets medical products, agreed to pay $48.26 million to resolve kickback allegations filed against the company relating to its sale of Brachytherapy seeds. Brachytherapy seeds are a form of radiation therapy. According to the complaint filed in 2006, Bard allegedly [...]
Earlier this month, the Department of Justice announced a $500 million settlement it reached with Ranbaxy USA Inc., a subsidiary of the Indian generic pharmaceutical manufacturer Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited. The settlement resolves both criminal and civil allegations filed against Ranbaxy. As a part of the settlement, the company agreed to pay $350 to resolve False [...]
Earlier this month, the Department of Justice announced a $14.1 million settlement it reached with Adventist Health System and its affiliated hospital White Memorial Medical Center. The settlement was the result of a qui-tam lawsuit that was filed against the companies accusing them of violating the Anti-Kickback Act and the Stark Statute. Of the $14.1 [...]
In 2012, the largest health care fraud settlement in U.S. history, as well as the largest payment ever by a drug company, was announced. Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline agreed to a $3 billion settlement to resolve both criminal and civil allegations surrounding its promotion of prescription drugs, its failure to report safety data about some of its drugs, and its false drug reporting practices.
On January 27, 2012, Attorney General Eric Holder announced the creation of the Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) Working Group. The Working Group is part of President Obama’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, which was established in 2009 as an interagency effort to strengthen the Government’s ability to combat financial crime. The Working Group is intended to bring together the Department of Justice, state attorneys general, and other federal agencies to investigate misconduct that contributed to the 2007-2008 financial crisis through the packaging and sale of RMBS.
In a groundbreaking case of first impression, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided Hooper v. Lockheed Martin Corp. on August 2, 2012, reversing the lower court and holding that cost estimates submitted by government contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. (“Lockheed”) could be “false claims” for purposes of the federal False Claims Act.
The Pew Center on the States has estimated that 1 in 100 Americans is in prison. Thousands more immigrants are in civil detention. That means big business for private security contractors, as federal and state governments increasingly rely on private prison companies to detain those accused or convicted of crimes. And the federal government also uses an extensive network of privately-run detention facilities for immigration enforcement purposes. Frequent complaints regarding the treatment of detainees at privately-run facilities raise serious questions about potential violations of detainees’ civil liberties, and may also give rise to claims under the federal False Claims Act or its state counterparts.
The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in April, 2010 was the largest in U.S. history, releasing over 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. In November, 2012, BP announced that it would plead guilty to 14 criminal charges and $1.25 billion in fines. Preceding the BP disaster, Exxon Valdez emptied approximately 11 million gallons of oil off the coast of Alaska, resulting in a $150 million fine, the largest ever at that time for an environmental crime. But what many people do not realize is that intentional dumping of oil and other pollutants is just as problematic as the highly publicized oil spills, like BP and Exxon Valdez, that captivate our nation’s attention. With roughly 88,000 commercial vessels operating worldwide, ocean shipping accounts for approximately half of all marine pollution. Some have estimated, for example, that illegal dumping of sludge and oily bilge water, residue generated by a ship’s engine, annually results in as much as eight times the amount of pollution generated by the Exxon Valdez spill.
A few weeks ago, the Department of Justice announced a $12 Million settlement it reached with Hospice of Arizona LC, American Hospice Management LLC and American Hospice Management Holdings LLC.
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