CFTC Playing Catch Up Makes Another Whistleblower Award
Posted 03/6/19
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February 14, 2019
Compounding pharmacy Vital Life Institute LLC, formerly known as AgeVital Pharmacy LLC, will pay $775,000 to resolve claims that the company and its principals paid kickbacks to third-party marketing companies to solicit prospective patients, regardless of the patients' needs. The investigation was initiated by the filing of a qui tam complaint under the False Claims Act by Manfred Knopf, who received unwanted compounded medications from AgeVital that were billed to Medicare. Mr. Knopf will receive $139,500 as a whistleblower reward. DOJConstantine Cannon Partner Gordon Schnell Quoted in Law360 on the Rise of "Outside" Whistleblowers
Posted 10/12/18
October 5, 2018
Partner Gordon Schnell was quoted in the Law360 article, Outside Whistleblowers Key To $625M Amerisource FCA Deal. Click here to read the article.Inman writes on whistleblower case brought by outsider
Posted 08/30/18
Integra Med Analytics Files Whistleblower Lawsuit against Providence Health & Services and J.A. Thomas and Associates
Posted 08/30/18
London whistleblower attorney Mary Inman published in RAC Monitor (August 30, 2018). Click here to read the article.
Top-10 Tips For Would-Be Whistleblowers
Posted 08/24/18
- There are numerous laws that protect whistleblowers. Many whistleblower reward laws and other whistleblower protection laws provide protections to whistleblowers from retaliation – through firings, demotions, or other adverse employee actions – for reporting misconduct.
- Becoming a whistleblower can be a difficult ordeal. The laws protecting whistleblowers have vastly improved. But the risk of retaliation or...
Massachusetts High Court Bars Companies as Whistleblowers Under State False Claims Act
Posted 08/9/18
Catch of the Week – 3M Company
Posted 07/27/18
On July 26, 2018, DOJ announced that Saint Paul, Minnesota-based 3M Company would pay $9.1 million to settle allegations that it knowingly sold defective dual-ended “Combat Arms” earplugs to the United States military without disclosing defects that made the devices ineffective and may have caused thousands of soldiers to suffer significant hearing loss and tinnitus (or ringing in the ears). Caught for its...