Dec 27, 2017 | False Claims Act
On December 6, 2017, U.S. District Judge Andrew L. Carter Jr. (Southern District of New York) held that a False Claims Act (FCA) whistleblower could not name his boss as an individual defendant in a suit alleging unlawful retaliation. The plaintiff, Gerard Diffley,...
Oct 6, 2016 | False Claims Act, Health Care
On September 20, 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a proposed rule to amend the regulations governing state Medicaid Fraud Control Units (“MFCUs”). State...
Oct 6, 2016 | False Claims Act, Health Care
In a recent False Claims Act (“FCA”) case interpreting amendments to the FCA’s anti-retaliation provision, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held that an employee who alleges that he or she was terminated for trying to stop an employer from violating the FCA must...
