Posted by Jaime L.M. Jones and Brenna Jenny Although relators and the government have long leveraged statistical inferences to estimate damages in FCA cases, in two recent opinions, courts have permitted […]
Posted by Scott D. Stein and Brenna Jenny We previously reported on the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ’s”) and the New York Attorney General’s pioneering suits against a provider network, based solely on […]
Posted by Scott Stein and Brenna Jenny The Southern District of Ohio recently granted defendants’ motion to dismiss in a FCA case based on alleged violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute (“AKS”) […]
Posted by Scott Stein and Brenna Jenny On June 27, 2014, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) elected to intervene in a FCA suit based solely on an alleged failure to timely […]
Posted by Jaime Jones and Brenna Jenny Three industry advocacy groups recently filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to provide clear measures of proportionality between misconduct and financial liability […]
Posted by Scott Stein and Brenna Jenny In May, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) published two proposed rules, one expanding its exclusion authority (“Proposed Exclusion […]
Posted by Jaime Jones, Donielle McCutcheon and Brenna Jenny The Taxpayers Against Fraud (“TAF”) Education Fund recently reported that the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ’s”) False Claims Act data dramatically underestimates the amount […]
Posted by Jaime Jones and Brenna Jenny An Eastern District of New York judge recently declined to apply a relaxed pleading standard to qui tam claims, dismissing an FCA suit based […]
Posted by Jaime Jones and Brenna Jenny The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals recently reaffirmed that mere regulatory noncompliance, standing alone, is not sufficient to establish False Claims Act liability for […]