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The Gallup Organization Agrees to Pay $10.5 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations
According to the Department of Justice, The Gallup Organization has agreed to settle a False Claims Act case for $10.5 million. In August 2012, the government partially intervened in the whistleblower lawsuit that was filed in October 2009. Gallup, based in Washington, D.C. is the country’s most well-known polling firm. The whistleblower, Michael Lindley,… Read More »
Hospital Staffing Firm Agrees to Settle Qui Tam Suit for $14.5 Million
Sound Inpatient Physicians, Inc. (“Sound Inpatient”), based in Tacoma, Washington, has agreed to pay the federal government $14.5 million to settle allegations that it knowingly overbilled a number of federal health care programs. Sound Inpatient is a staffing company that provides hospitalists and other post-acute physicians to hospitals and other medical facilities. Hospitalists are… Read More »
Two Shredding Companies Settle Whistleblower Suit
The Department of Justice announced that it has settled a pending qui tam suit with commercial shredding companies Shred-It, Inc. and Iron Mountain, Inc. Ohio-based Cintas Corporation, a third company also named in the suit, continues to contest the allegations. A whistleblower suit was brought under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims… Read More »
SEC Denies One of Four Whistleblower Award Claims Submitted in Connection With Sham Hedge Fund
The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has denied one of the four claims for whistleblower award payments submitted in connection with the matter SEC v. Andrey C. Hicks and Locust Offshore Management, LLC. In October 2011, the SEC filed an enforcement action against Locust Offshore Management, LLC and Andrey C. Hicks alleging that it… Read More »
Fifty-Five Hospitals Agree to Resolve False Claims Act Case for $34 Million
The Justice Department announced that 55 hospitals in 21 states have agreed to pay $34 million to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act. Fourteen of the hospitals are located in Florida: Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami; Aventura Hospital & Medical Center in Aventura; Capital Regional Medical Center in Tallahassee; Doctors… Read More »
Government Contractor SAIC Pays $11.75 Million to Settle False Claims Act Case
Science Applications International Corporation (“SAIC”) has agreed to pay $11.75 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act. Virginia-based SAIC provides scientific, engineering, and technical services to commercial and government customers. According to the Justice Department, between 2002 and 2012, the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (“New Mexico Tech”)… Read More »
Ranbaxy USA, Inc. Agrees to $500 Million Settlement
Ranbaxy USA, Inc., a division of generic drug manufacturer Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited based in India, has agreed with the U.S. to settle criminal and civil charges. The charges relate to the manufacture and distribution of allegedly adulterated drugs made at two Ranbaxy facilities in India. A drug is deemed to be “adulterated” if it… Read More »
C.R. Bard Agrees to Settle Qui Tam Suit
New Jersey-based C.R. Bard, Inc. (“Bard”), a manufacturer and marketer of medical products, has agreed to settle a qui tam action for $48.26 million. According to the Justice Department, the suit relates to Bard’s sales of brachytherapy seeds (“seeds”) used to treat prostate cancer. Brachytherapy seeds are small radioactive pellets that are implanted in… Read More »
False Claims Act Used in Florida Section 8 Housing Cases
Two landlords accused of shaking down low-income tenants for excess rent payments were recently sued under the federal False Claims Act. According to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida and Legal Services of Greater Miami, the landlords George David Horton, a pastor at Greater New Bethel Baptist Church, and John Joseph,… Read More »
Adventist Health Agrees to Resolve False Claims Act Lawsuit
California-based Adventist Health System/West d/b/a Adventist Health (“Adventist”) and its affiliated hospital White Memorial Medical Center (“White”) have agreed to settle a False Claims Act case with the U.S. and the state of California. As part of the settlement, Adventist and White agreed to pay $11.5 million to the federal government and $2.6 million… Read More »