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In a forthcoming article in State Tax Notes , Eversheds Sutherland SALT partner Jeff Friedman and associate Dennis Jansen explore the issues with A.B. 2570 – California’s latest attempt to extend the state’s whistleblower statute to tax claims. The...

The Delaware Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s ruling and held that Overstock.com was not liable for nearly $7 million in damages because there was insufficient evidence to show that Overstock violated the Delaware False Claims Act by not reporting...

On Monday, May 11, 2020, the California Assembly Judiciary Committee approved AB 2570 (Stone) , which expands the state’s False Claims Act (FCA) to cover certain tax matters. Specifically, AB 2570 applies the FCA to claims, records, or statements made...

by S. Mohsin Reza , Jason Manning and John C. Lynch On September 28, the U.S. government filed a lawsuit alleging that a purported charitable “counseling fund,” five mortgage lenders, and their principals defrauded the United States and...

By Adam J. Rogers , Bradley M. Smyer and Karen Nelson In a significant development for healthcare providers, a federal court in New York has adopted the government’s interpretation of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s...

By Jessica Talati On August 3, Judge Edgardo Ramos of the Southern District of New York denied hospital defendants’ motions to dismiss in United States ex rel. Kane v. Healthfirst, Inc., et al . , No. 11 CIV 2325 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 3, 2015), keeping...

By Adam J. Rogers , Bradley M. Smyer and Karen Nelson | In a significant development for healthcare providers, a federal court in New York has adopted the government’s interpretation of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s...

By Ruth Levy & Patrick C. Devine, Jr. | The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”) established that any person who receives an overpayment from the Medicare or Medicaid programs and who does not report and return the overpayment...

Introduction | The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”), signed into law on March 23, 2010, included a provision (the “Report and Refund Mandate”), broadly requiring health care providers, suppliers, Part D plans...

What do a moving company and a hospital association have in common? The False Claims Act (FCA). The American Hospital Association along with the United States Chamber of Commerce and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America recently...

By Savaria B. Harris and Mitka T. Baker Forbes magazine has dubbed 2014 “The Year of the Whistleblower.” For healthcare providers, this designation has translated into millions of dollars in fines and penalties and the initiation of criminal...

Pharmaceutical company Endo Health Solutions Inc. and its subsidiary Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. have agreed to pay $192.7 million to resolve criminal and civil liability arising from Endo’s marketing of the prescription drug Lidoderm for uses not...

As readers of the Financial Fraud Law Report and the Financial Fraud Law Blog certainly recall, JPMorgan Chase settled a couple of big, big Madoff-related cases some weeks ago, reaching a $2.05 billion settlement with federal prosecutors over its failure...

A first-of-its-kind lawsuit against Sprint-Nextel Corporation, alleging that it deliberately undercollected and underpaid millions of dollars in New York State and local sales taxes on flat-rate access charges for wireless calling plans, may continue...

San Diego-based Vector Planning & Services, Inc., has entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors in which it admitted to criminally defrauding the Defense Department, and in which it agreed to pay restitution. As part...