Savannah, GA - Pediatric Services Of America And Related Entities To Pay $6.88 Million To Resolve False Claims Act Allegations

Pediatric Services of America Healthcare, Pediatric Services of America, Inc., Pediatric Healthcare, Inc., Pediatric Home Nursing Services (collectively, “PSA”), and Portfolio Logic, LLC agreed to pay $6.88 million ($6,882,387) to resolve allegations that PSA, a p... More...   $0 (08-04-2015 - GA)

21 Defendants‐Appellants Nursing Personnel Home Care and its president
22 Walter Greenfield (collectively, “Nursing Personnel”) appeal from a January 6,
23 2014 partial judgment of the United States District Court for the Eastern District
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of New 1 York (Block, J.) awarding Plaintiff‐Appellee Maurice Keshner $185,962.12
2 in attorneys’ fees pursuant to the attorney... More...   $0 (07-23-2015 - NY)

Jackson, TN - Regional Hospital of Jackson has agreed to pay the United States $510,000 to resolve allegations that it billed Medicare and Medicaid for unnecessary cardiac procedures over an eight-year period.

The hospital agreed to the half-million dollar settlement on Friday, July 10th. According to the allegations, from January 2004 to May 2012, Regional Hospital defrauded Medicare and... More...   $0 (07-23-2015 - TN)

This is a misappropriation of trade secrets case arising out of a dispute between two competing businesses providing spa and salon services in Pocatello, Idaho, La Bella Vita, LLC
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(La Bella Vita) and Eikova Salon and Spa, LLC (Eikova). In February 2011, a number of employees left their employment at La Bella Vita to open Eikova, a new salon nearby. La Bella Vita brought suit alleging ... More...   $0 (07-13-2015 - )

In a qui tam action in which the government intervened, a jury determined that Tuomey Healthcare System, Inc., did not violate the False Claims Act (“FCA”), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-33 (2012).1 The district court, however, vacated the jury’s verdict and granted the government a new trial after concluding that it had erroneously excluded excerpts of a Tuomey executive’s deposition testimony. The jury in t... More...   $0 (07-10-2015 - )

If a whistleblower informs the government that it has
been bilked by a provider of goods and services, and that
scheme is unmasked to the public, under what conditions can
that same whistleblower recover part of what the guilty
provider is forced to reimburse the government? We hold
today that there are two, and only two, requirements in order
for a whistleblower to be an “... More...   $0 (07-07-2015 - CA)

American Access Care Holdings, LLC, which operated a vascular access center in Miami, has agreed to pay $1.2 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare for medically unnecessary percutaneous transluminal angioplasties (PTAs) and thrombectomies and by billing for more PTAs per patient encounter than permitted. Former American Access Care (AAC) faciliti... More...   $0 (07-07-2015 - FL)

New Orleans, LA - The United States of America and the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and others sued British Petroleum, PLC (BP) on negligence and other theories for the injuries and damages caused by the April 20, 2010 the oil rig blowout and oil spill of Oil Rig Deepwater Horizon.

The blowout killed 11 workers and dumped millions of gallons of crude oil into the... More...   $18900000000 (07-03-2015 - LA)

In a qui tam action in which the government intervened, a jury determined that Tuomey Healthcare System, Inc., did not violate the False Claims Act (“FCAâ€�), 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-33 (2012).1 The district court, however, vacated the jury’s verdict and granted the government a new trial after concluding that it had erroneously excluded excerpts of a Tuomey executive’s deposition testimony. The... More...   $0 (07-02-2015 - SC)

The underlying dispute in this case concerns where housing for low-income persons should be constructed in Dallas, Texas—that is, whether the housing should be built in the inner city or in the suburbs. This dispute comes to the Court on a disparate-impact theory of liability. In contrast to a disparate-treatment case, where a “plaintiff must establish that the defendant had a discriminatory i... More...   $0 (06-25-2015 - TX)

United States Attorney James L. Santelle of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced today that Scott Watry of New Berlin, Wisconsin, has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States. Mr. Watry is the president and owner of Watry Homes, LLC, a contractor alleged to have underpaid wages on federally funded housing projects. Mr. Watry and Watry Homes, LLC, have also agreed ... More...   $0 (06-15-2015 - WI)

TULSA, OK — Jerome E. Block, M.D. and his clinic, Integrations Medical Clinic, have agreed to pay a total of $105,000 in civil penalties to settle allegations of submitting false Medicare claims to the United States.

A former employee of Dr. Block filed a qui tam civil lawsuit as a Relator, commonly known as a “Whistle Blowerâ€� complaint, in the name of the United States under the Fa... More...   $0 (06-11-2015 - OK)

After plaintiff and appellant Jessica Chan’s mother died from internal
hemorrhaging related to Coumadin use following heart surgery, Chan successfully sued
defendant and respondent Peter Curran for medical malpractice. Neither the sufficiency
of the evidence to support the malpractice verdict, nor any other issue associated with the
trial and the rendition of the jury verdict, is... More...   $0 (06-09-2015 - CA)

A decade ago, we observed: “While the medical privileges are important in promoting free discussion in the evaluation of health care professionals and health services, the right to evidence is also important, and therefore privileges must be strictly construed.â€�1 In this original proceeding—involving a heart surgeon who claims his former hospital retaliated against him for joining a competin... More...   $0 (05-22-2015 - TX)

Spokane, WA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Washington filed a notice on Monday informing the U.S. Federal District Court that it had completed a multi-year investigation of fraud originally alleged by three former employees of Monaco Enterprises Inc., a Spokane based company providing fire and security alarm systems to U.S. military bases. According to the alle... More...   $0 (05-15-2015 - WA)

Jackson, TN - Jackson-Madison County General Hospital has paid the United States $1,328,465 to resolve allegations that it billed Medicare and Medicaid in connection with the placement of unnecessary cardiac stents and other unnecessary cardiac procedures.

Cardiac stents are mesh tubes placed in coronary arteries to keep the arteries open in the treatment of coronary heart disease. The ot... More...   $0 (05-07-2015 - TN)

SAN DIEGO, CA – In a lawsuit unsealed in federal court, five ambulance companies entered into civil settlements with the Department of Justice requiring them to collectively pay more than $11.5 million in payments to the United States to resolve kickback allegations.

The settling defendants include three Orange-County based companies - Pacific Ambulance, Inc. and Bowers Companies, Inc.,... More...   $0 (05-04-2015 - CA)

These consolidated appeals involve motions to dismiss defamation claims under the Texas Citizen’s Participation Act1 (TCPA). AOL, Inc. brings an interlocutory appeal of the denial of its motion to dismiss defamation claims brought by Dr. Richard Malouf and his wife, Leanne Malouf.2 The Maloufs appeal the final judgment in a severed action dismissing their
1 TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. Â... More...   $0 (04-02-2015 - TX)

Orlando, FL – Adventist Health System Sunbelt Healthcare Corporation (Adventist) has agreed to pay $5,412,502 to resolve claims that it violated the False Claims Act by providing radiation oncology services to Medicare and TRICARE beneficiaries that were not directly supervised by radiation oncologists or similarly qualified persons, the Department of Justice announced today. Adventist is a non... More...   $0 (03-19-2015 - FL)

Securitas Security Services USA, Inc. (Securitas) petitions for a writ of mandate and/or prohibition challenging the superior court's order granting its amended motion to compel arbitration in which the court ordered the parties to arbitrate all of real party in interest Denise Edwards's claims, including her class action and representative claims under the Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (P... More...   $0 (02-27-2015 - CA)

Our Supreme Court has transferred this matter to us with directions to vacate our decision filed November 26, 2012 and to reconsider the cause in light of Iskanian v. CLS Transportation Los Angeles, LLC (2014) 59 Cal.4th 348 (Iskanian).1
Following the rule announced in Iskanian, we reverse and remand with directions the trial court’s order denying the petition of defendant Arakelian Enterpri... More...   $0 (02-26-2015 - CA)

Miami, FL - Two South Florida medical doctors and their wives have agreed to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act when their wives accepted sham marketer salaries in exchange for their husbands’ referrals to a home health care company called A Plus Home Health Care Inc., the Justice Department announced today. Under the settlements, Dr. Alan and Lynn Buhler will pay to the ... More...   $0 (02-23-2015 - FL)

ALBUQUERQUE, NM – Community Health Systems Professional Services Corporation (CHSPSC) and three affiliated New Mexico hospitals (collectively CHS) have agreed to pay the United States $75 million to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by making illegal donations to county governments which were used to fund the state share of Medicaid payments to the hospitals, the Justice... More...   $75000000 (02-09-2015 - NM)

Plaintiffs and appellants Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission (Commission) and Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Association (Association)1 appeal from a judgment and order of dismissal entered following the sustaining without leave to amend of demurrers by defendants and respondents Insomniac, Inc. (Insomniac); Pasquale Rotella (Rotella); Go Ventures, Inc. (Ventures); and Reza Gerami (Gerami).2 ... More...   $0 (01-27-2015 - CA)

The Wet Seal Retail, Inc. (Wet Seal) appeals from the denial of its motion to
compel arbitration of this wage and hour action brought by employee Elizabeth Montano.
Wet Seal also challenges the grant of Montano’s motion to compel discovery responses.
We affirm the order denying the motion to compel arbitration and dismiss the challenge
to the discovery order as nonappealable.More...   $0 (01-13-2015 - CA)