Tampa, FL - Tampa’s Largest Ambulance Providers Agree To Pay $5.5 Million To Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Regarding Medically Unnecessary Ambulance Transports

AmeriCare Ambulance Service, Inc. and its sister company, AmeriCare ALS, Inc. (collectively, AmeriCare), have agreed to pay approximately $5.5 million to resolve allegations that they defrauded Medicare by billing for medica... More...   $5500000 (01-31-2018 - FL)

Relators Philip Marsteller and Robert Swisher brought this action against
their former employer, MD Helicopters (“MD”), and codefendants Patriarch
Partners (“Patriarch”), Lynn Tilton, and Colonel Norbert Vergez, under the qui tam
provision of the False Claims Act (“FCA” or “Act”), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729–30.1 The
allegations of the complaint concern a series of contracts between the Unit... More...   $0 (01-31-2018 - AL)

Dallas, TX - Laboratory and Owner of Lab Management Services Company to Pay $3.77 Million to Resolve Kickback and Medical Necessity Claims

Primex Clinical Laboratories, LLC has agreed to pay $3,500,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks in exchange for laboratory referrals for patient pharmacogenetic testing. In a related settlement, Mitch Ed... More...   $3770000 (01-25-2018 - TX)

Accredo Health Group, Inc., a specialty pharmacy that provides home care for patients with hemophilia (a rare condition that prevents blood from clotting properly), made donations to charities, two of which allegedly recommended Accredo as an approved provider for hemophilia patients. This raises whether the donations came with something expected in return for the recommendations, which might trig... More...   $0 (01-23-2018 - NJ)

Eleven retired teachers (Teachers) who had been employed in the Salinas Unified
High School District (District), disputed attempts by appellant California State Teachers’
Retirement System (CalSTRS) to recoup retirement benefit overpayments. The
overpayments were the result of a years-long miscalculation by the District of the
monthly retirement benefits to which the Teachers were ... More...   $0 (01-21-2018 - CA)

In this common-law trademark case, Thomas McClary appeals from an order granting judgment as a matter of law to Commodores Entertainment Corporation (CEC) and converting a preliminary injunction into a permanent one against McClary and his corporation, Fifth Avenue Entertainment, LLC. The dispute concerned ownership of the mark “The Commodores,” the name of a famous Grammy Award–winning rhythm and... More...   $0 (01-09-2018 - FL)

Appellant Laurence Schneider – also called a Relator – brought a qui tam suit under the False Claims Act against JPMorgan Chase, alleging that Chase falsely claimed compliance with a Settlement it, and a number of other large banks, reached with the United States and state governments. The Settlement – and it is a massive one, costing Chase alone $1.1 billion of cash and over $4.2 billion of in-k... More...   $0 (01-09-2018 - DC)

In late 1998, the City of Modesto (the City), the City of Modesto Sewer District
No. 1 (the Sewer District) and the Modesto Redevelopment Agency (the RDA) sued
various retail dry cleaning businesses (dry cleaners) operating in Modesto together with
the manufacturers of dry cleaning equipment used at those dry cleaners, and the
manufacturers and distributors of dry cleaning solvent.... More...   $0 (01-08-2018 - CA)

New York, NY Plaintiff‐appellant Wandering Dago, Inc., (“WD”) operates a food truck and
32 brands itself and the food it sells with language generally viewed as ethnic slurs.
33 Defendants‐appellees are officials within the New York State Office of General Services
* Judge Carol Bagley Amon, of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of
New York, sitti... More...   $0 (01-03-2018 - NY)

Appellant Justin Kim sued his former employer, Reins
International California, Inc., alleging individual and class
claims for wage and hour violations, and seeking civil penalties
on behalf of the State of California and aggrieved employees
under Labor Code section 2698 et seq., the Labor Code Private
Attorneys General Act of 2004 (PAGA). Reins successfully moved
to compel ... More...   $0 (12-31-2017 - CA)

On November 19, 2014, Reynolds was charged by Information in Ravalli County
with felony DUI and two misdemeanors: Failure To Have Liability Insurance In Effect
and Failure To Drive On The Right Side Of The Roadway. On March 5, 2015, Reynolds
and the State entered into a plea agreement, in which the State agreed to drop the
misdemeanors and Reynolds would plead guilty to the fe... More...   $0 (12-30-2017 - MT)

Charlotte, NC - EmCare, Inc. to Pay $29.8 Million To Resolve False Claims Act Allegations

The Department of Justice on December 19, 2017 announced a settlement with Dallas based EmCare, Inc. a subdivision of Envision Healthcare Corporation that provides physicians to hospitals to staff their Emergency Departments (EDs). EmCare agreed to pay $29.8 million to resolve claims that, from 2008... More...   $29800000 (12-28-2017 - NC)

Kmart Corporation to Pay U.S. $32.3 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations for Overbilling Federal Health Programs for Generic Prescription Drugs

Kmart Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sears Holdings Corporation (SHC), has agreed to pay $32.3 million to the United States to settle allegations that in-store pharmacies in Kmart stores failed to report discounted prescripti... More...   $32300000 (12-26-2017 - IL)

Paul Solomon brought a False Claims Act action against his employer Northrop Grumman and against Lockheed Martin for making false claims against the government. On a motion for summary judgment, the district court held that it lacked jurisdiction over Solomon’s claims based on the Act’s public disclosure bar. We AFFIRM.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
Paul Solomon worked for Northrop Gru... More...   $0 (12-25-2017 - TX)

Dallas, TX - Two Physician Groups Pay Over $33 Million to Resolve Claims Involving HMA Hospitals

The Justice Department on December 19, 2017 announced settlements with two physician groups, EmCare Inc. (EmCare) and Physician’s Alliance Ltd (PAL), for allegedly receiving illegal remuneration in exchange for patient referrals to hospitals owned by the now-defunct Health Management Associate... More...   $33000000 (12-20-2017 - OK)

After losing his job at Mutual Bank, Kenneth
Conner brought this qui tam action claiming that the defendants,
most of them directors or officers of the bank, had
defrauded the government in violation of the False Claims
2 No. 17‐1162
Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729–3733. The United States declined to
take over the qui tam action, which Conner eventually settled.
But the Fe... More...   $0 (12-05-2017 - IL)

Dallas, TX - Dallas-Based Physician-Owned Hospital to Pay $7.5 Million to Settle Allegations of Paying Kickbacks to Physicians in Exchange for Surgical Referrals

Pine Creek Medical Center LLC (“Pine Creek”), a physician-owned hospital serving the Dallas/Fort Worth area, agreed to pay $7.5 million to resolve claims that it violated the False Claims Act by paying physicians kickbacks in the... More...   $7500000 (12-05-2017 - TX)

On April 23, 2015, a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, returned a seven
count indictment against the defendants — who were former employees of SunTrust’s
Annandale branch.2 The indictment’s first count charged them with conspiracy to commit wire fraud affecting a financial institution, in contravention of 18 U.S.C. § 1349.3
Counts 2 through 7 made substantive allegations ... More...   $0 (12-03-2017 - )

Part D of the Medicare program is a voluntary prescription drug benefit program that subsidizes the cost of prescription drugs and prescription drug insurance premiums for Medicare enrollees.2 The Part D program operates as a public-private partnership between the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) and government contractors. CMS contracts with private insurance companies called “S... More...   $0 (12-03-2017 - PA)

Minneapolis, MN - Local Dermatologist Pays $850,000 To Settle False Claims Act Allegations - Skin Care Doctors, P.A. and its CEO allegedly engaged in improper Medicare billing

Skin Care Doctors, P.A. and its founder and CEO, Michael J. Ebertz, M.D. agreed to pay $850,000 to the United States to resolve allegations of false claims submitted for certain dermatology procedures in violation ... More...   $850000 (12-01-2017 - MN)

Appellant Glenair, Inc., challenges the denial of its motion to
compel arbitration of respondents’ claim under the Labor
Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (PAGA; Lab.
Code, § 2698 et seq.). Glenair contends an agreement
respondents executed during their employment with the
company was an enforceable postdispute agreement
obligating them to arbitrate the claim. We h... More...   $0 (11-28-2017 - CA)

We are asked to consider the viability of two potential defenses to an alleged False Claims Act violation that arise in the context of the Medicare Part D Program: the government knowledge inference, which can defeat a finding of scienter in certain circumstances, and the element of materiality.1 The District Court relied upon the government knowledge inference doctrine in dismissing the claims. A... More...   $0 (11-23-2017 - )

Jackson, MS - Mississippi Skilled Nursing Facility, Related Companies, and Executives Agree to Pay $1.25 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations of Grossly Substandard Care to Facility Residents

The Department of Justice announced today that Hyperion Foundation, a Georgia not-for-profit entity (Hyperion), Julie Mittleider, a resident of Georgia and Hyperion’s former President, Alta... More...   $1250000 (11-16-2017 - MS)

Sherman, TX - Stephen Dean, an individual, The State of Oklahoma and the United States of America sued Tulsa, Oklahoma Emergency Medical Services Authority, its executive director Steve Williamson, Paramedics Plus, LLC, and East Texas Medical Center Regional Healthcare Syste, Inc. on Qui Tam (False Claims Act) theory under 31 U.S.C. 2729 claiming that Williamson and EMSA Chief Financial Officer K... More...   $0 (11-08-2017 - OK)

In this putative class action, consumers of prescription eye medication allege that manufacturers and distributors of the medication packaged it in such a way that forced them to waste it, violating the consumer protection statutes of their home states. The District Court dismissed the entire action for lack of jurisdiction, finding the consumers’ allegations of injury in fact insufficient to conf... More...   $0 (11-03-2017 - NJ)