This week DOJ released its annual report on FCA settlements and new cases, available here. Although DOJ trumpeted a record-high number of qui tam cases filed (979) and a near […]
Today the Senate Judiciary Committee held a confirmation hearing for Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Attorney General. During the hearing, Senator Chuck Grassley, a long-time proponent of whistleblowers […]
Judge Patti Saris in the District of Massachusetts recently granted a defense motion for summary judgment after concluding that relator failed to show that defendants knowingly submitted medically unnecessary tests […]
A judge in the Southern District of West Virginia sua sponte requested briefing from the parties to address the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. […]
Yesterday evening Judge Kathryn Mizelle in the Middle District of Florida granted a defense motion for judgment on the pleadings and dismissed an FCA case after concluding that the FCA’s […]
On July 22, 2024, the First Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral argument on what the appropriate standard of causation is for AKS-based FCA claims—specifically, whether a “claim” under the […]
Recently, DOJ, the State of Florida, and the State of Minnesota reached a nearly $15 million FCA settlement to resolve allegations that a provider knowingly submitted claims for services related […]
DOJ recently secured dismissal of a qui tam complaint premised on alleged violations of EMTALA over the relator’s objections, with the district court affirming that DOJ satisfied the Polansky standard […]
A panel of the Ninth Circuit recently issued a 2-1 opinion reversing, in part, a district court’s dismissal of a False Claims Act case premised on a radiology facility’s use […]
In a recent decision, the Seventh Circuit acknowledged—but declined to pick sides in—a circuit split regarding the degree of causation required to establish FCA claims premised on AKS violations. In […]