Sep 15, 2024 | DOJ, False Claims Act, Fraud Investigations, Health Care, Medicare and Medicaid
Late last week, the Department of Justice announced that Walgreen had agreed to pay over $106 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by billing government health care programs for prescriptions that were never dispensed. According to the...
Aug 28, 2024 | False Claims Act
On August 26, 2024, the United States Department of Justice announced that the City of Los Angeles agreed to pay $38.2 million to resolve allegations that it knowingly failed to meet federal accessibility requirements when it sought and used HUD grant funds for...
Aug 18, 2024 | False Claims Act, PPP Investigations
On August 15, 2024, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced that a Calabasas-based law firm, The Bloom Firm, and two members of the firm’s senior management, had agreed to pay $274,000 to settle allegations that...
Aug 18, 2024 | False Claims Act, Health Care, Health Care Fraud, Medicare and Medicaid
On August 16, 2024, the plaintiff’s law firm Phillips & Cohen announced that health insurance giant Humana agreed to pay $90 Million to settle a qui tam whistleblower lawsuit filed under the federal False Claims Act (FCA). According to the law firm’s...
Aug 12, 2024 | False Claims Act, federal investigations, Fraud Investigations
Last week, the DOJ announced two separate False Claims Act (FCA) settlements alleging the avoidance of import duties. Both were the result of qui tam whistleblower lawsuits. First, on August 8, 2024, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of...
