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Whistleblower News From The Inside -- September 22, 2017

Posted  September 22, 2017

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

J&J Unit Loses Bid to Dismiss Whistleblower Retaliation Claims – A Johnson & Johnson subsidiary has lost a bid to dismiss claims that it retaliated against a former employee whose whistleblower lawsuit led to an $18 million settlement with the U.S. Justice Department.  U.S. Magistrate Judge Donald Cabell in Boston said Melayna Lokosky, a former sales representative with J&J unit Acclarent, could proceed with claims she was illegally fired after questioning the off-label promotion of a medical device. Reuters

Telia Company AB Enters Into a Global Foreign Bribery Resolution of More Than $965 Million – Stockholm-based Telia Company AB, an international telecommunications company that was formerly an issuer of publicly traded securities in the U.S., and its Uzbek subsidiary, Coscom LLC, entered into a global foreign bribery resolution and agreed to pay a combined total penalty of more than $965 million to resolve charges arising out of a scheme to pay bribes in Uzbekistan. DOJ

 Owner of nursing home where 8 died linked to Medicare fraud case – The hospital co-owned by a Florida doctor whose nursing home was the site of eight deaths last week is linked to the biggest Medicare fraud case ever filed against individuals in U.S. history, court records show.  Neither Larkin Community Hospital nor its president, Dr. Jack Michel, is named nor charged in the criminal fraud case filed last year in Miami federal court.  But in 2004, in a civil case also filed in Miami, federal prosecutors cited multiple links among Michel, Larkin and Michel’s former business associate, Philip Esformes, the man prosecutors say is the ringleader of a scheme that used elderly patients to bilk Medicare and Medicaid of about $1 billionPalm Beach Post