Outcome: $7.5 million
Tycko & Zavareei LLP partner Jonathan Tycko represented two whistleblowers who brought a qui tam lawsuit under the False Claims Act against defendants Orbit Medical Inc. and Rehab Medical Inc. The case alleged that Orbit sales representatives, under the direction of one of Orbit’s top executives, Jake Kilgore, forged medical records so that Orbit could obtain Medicare payments for electric wheelchairs. By blowing the whistle on this fraud, the firm’s brave clients helped the government get several criminal convictions and the return of more than $7.5 million to the government.