Walgreens Paying $106.8 Million to Settle Prescription Billing Fraud Charges September 16, 2024 By Jonathan Stempel Walgreens Boots Alliance agreed to pay $106.8 million to settle charges it fraudulently billed the U.S. government for prescriptions that...
False Claims Act Settlements and Judgments Exceed $2.68B in 2023, New Report Show March 6, 2024 Settlements and judgments under the False Claims Act exceeded $2.68 billion in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2023, according...
Professional Services Exclusion Didn’t Bar False Claims Act Settlement September 15, 2023 By Jim Sams A mortgage lender accused of violating the False Claims Act by approving government-backed loans that did not meet federal guidelines...
Surgeons Are Double and Triple Booking Procedures That Residents Must Perform September 1, 2023 By John Holland Doctors at some of the largest US teaching hospitals are blowing the whistle on a lucrative practice they say endangers...
Montana Clinic Files for Bankruptcy Following $6 Million Judgment over False Asbestos Claims August 10, 2023 By Matthew Brown BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A health clinic in a Montana town plagued by deadly asbestos contamination has filed for bankruptcy...
Judge Orders Montana Health Clinic to Pay Nearly $6 Million over False Asbestos Claims July 24, 2023 BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) __ A health clinic in a Montana town plagued by deadly asbestos contamination must pay the government...
Health Clinic in Montana Superfund Town Faces Penalties for False Asbestos Claims June 30, 2023 By Matthew Brown and Amy Beth Hanson MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) – A health clinic in a Montana town plagued by deadly asbestos contamination faces millions of dollars...
Superfund Town’s Health Clinic Accused of Submitting False Asbestos Claims June 29, 2023 By Matthew Brown and Amy Beth Hanson MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) – A major U.S. railroad found liable for spreading hazardous asbestos that killed hundreds of people in...
D&O Insurer Must Pay for Settlement in Drugmaker’s Kickback Case May 5, 2023 By Jim Sams Federal Insurance Co. must pay the $10 million policy limit in a directors and officers policy issued to Astellas Pharma,...
Wall Street Whistleblowers Tip Off SEC — But Hear Nothing Back November 29, 2022 By John Holland Janice Shell likes to sniff out fraud. An art historian by training, she once spent her days digging through Renaissance...