Monthly Roundup -- October 2014

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

Here is our look-back at the key whistleblower and fraud developments we have written about over the past month:

FEATURED POSTS AND COMMENTARY

This month’s featured posts and commentary included: False Claims Act Scores Continue to Pile Up (here); Third Circuit Rejects Qui Tam Lawsuit On Original Source Requirement (here); Report on UNC Scandal Finds 18 Years of Academic Fraud (here); FBI Whistleblower Program Undergoing Overhaul (here); Whistleblower Goes it Alone and Wins Big in Guardrail Case (here); Court Approves Statistical Sampling in False Claims Act Cases (here); Snowden Documentary Citizenfour is a Must See (here); Big Week for Whistleblowers — Three Major False Claims Act Victories (here); Life After Whistleblowing for High-Tech Whistleblowers (here); and Are Women More Likely Than Men to be a Whistleblower? (here).

DOJ CATCH OF THE WEEK 

This month’s highlighted DOJ enforcement proceedings were against: Columbia University (here); DaVita Healthcare Partners (here); Sikorsky Aircraft (here); DRS Technical Services (here); and CVS Caremark (here);

WHISTLEBLOWER SPOTLIGHT

This month’s featured whistleblowers included: Climate change whistleblower Rick Piltz (here); New York Fed Whistleblower Carmen Segarra (here); and Marine Whistleblower Franz Gayl (here).

WHISTLEBLOWER NEWS FROM THE INSIDE

Included among this month’s top stories: Dignity Health to pay $37M to settle whistleblower claims (here).

DOJ Fraud Settlements

The DOJ settled False Claims Act and other fraud allegations with Hitachi Metals, Dignity Health, Biomet, Columbia University, First RF Corp., DaVita, Boeing, Extendicare, DRS Technical Services, among others, for a combined recovery this month of more than $600 million.  Many of these matters were initiated by whistleblowers under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act.