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DOJ Catch of the Week -- CVS Caremark

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team This week's Department of Justice "catch of the week" goes to pharmacy benefit management (PBM) company Caremark LLC.  Last Friday, it agreed to pay $6 million to settle charges of failing to reimburse Medicaid for prescription drug costs that should have been paid for by Caremark-administered private health plans.  Caremark is operated by CVS Caremark Corporation, one of the...

Are Women More Likely Than Men to be a Whistleblower?

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team No one can truly predict if they ever would be a whistleblower. It most likely would depend on the circumstances -- the misconduct at issue; the perpetrator; who it harms; the timing; the work environment; the potential repercussions; the risk of retaliation; etc. You can take our whistleblower test and get some sense of whether you may be predisposed to "say something if you...

Whistleblower News from the Inside - October 1, 2014

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Lawmakers back whistleblowers in the Supreme Court -- A bipartisan group of lawmakers filed a brief in the Supreme Court supporting a former air marshal's whistleblower case.  Wall Street Journal Medicaid fraud case against Caremark settles for $6 million-- The qui tam whistleblower suit alleged that the company overcharged Medicaid for prescriptions for more than a decade. 

Whistleblower Spotlight -- Marine Whistleblower Franz Gayl

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team This week's "Whistleblower Spotlight" falls on US Marine Corps civilian scientist and retired Marine Officer Franz Gayl.  He is the Marine Corps insider who in 2006 sounded the alarm on the military's failure to protect US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan with appropriate armored vehicles.  While stationed in Iraq, he saw first-hand the casualties being suffered from roadside...

Whistleblower News from the Inside - September 30, 2014

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Redemption for VA whistleblowers with settlement of retaliation claims — The Office of Special Counsel helped three whistleblowers at the Department of Veterans Affairs settle whistleblower retaliation claims relating to their disclosures of mismanagement at the Phoenix VA Medical Center, with at least two of the whistleblower receiving promotions.  Washington Post Three...