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Ruckh v. Salus Rehabilitation: Eleventh Circuit Reinstates Most of Huge False Claims Act Verdict
USA - July 15 2020 Just recently, the Eleventh Circuit largely overturned the District Court’s decision in US and State of Florida ex re Ruckh v. Salus Rehabilitation…
Spectre at the feast: Post-Crash False Claims Act Enforcement Looms Over Large Banks and the Paycheck Protection Program
USA - April 22 2020 Recently, I was reading The Washington Post’s Finance 202 Newsletter about the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)…
Insights About False Claim Act Cases and Qui Tams from Joseph “Jody” Hunt and Michael Granston from the U.S. Department of Justice at the Federal Bar Association’s 2020 Qui Tam Conference
USA - March 18 2020 Two key representatives of the U.S. Department of Justice - Joseph “Jody” Hunt, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Division, and Michael Granston…
U.S. Department of Justice 2019 False Claims Act Statistics -- Another Great Year for DOJ Recoveries in Health Care Fraud Cases
USA - January 20 2020 On January 9, 2020, the Civil Division of U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) finally released its annual False Claims Act (“FCA”) statistics for…
Challenging the Relator's Standing to Bring a Qui Tam Can Open the Door to Jurisdictional Discovery
USA - April 1 2019 Is a relator’s release of claims valid and enforceable if she or he executed it prior to filing a False Claims Act qui tam against the same…
A Case to Keep In Your Pocket: Two Dismissal Rule Applies to Identical Qui Tam Cases Brought by Different Relators
USA - February 26 2019 I came across a small case to keep in your pocket as it might be needed one day: Arizona Medical Billing, Inc. v. FSIX LLC, 2019 U.S. Dist. Lexis…
Partially Intervened Qui Tam Cases Cannot Have Two Masters: Court Bars Relators From Proceeding With Their Non-intervened Claims
USA - January 23 2019 I commend to you a remarkable case, U.S. ex rel. Wride v. Stevens-Henager College, Inc., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 6783, 2019 WL 186663 (D. Utah 2019)…
Maybe That Wasn’t Such a Good Idea After All - DOJ takes a “common sense” approach in applying Yates Policy in civil cases
USA - December 18 2018 In June 2016, I reported how the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) planned on implementing its Yates policy of stressing the accountability of…
Deducting False Claims Act Damages
USA - April 29 2018 Among the nuggets contained in the recent Tax Bill passed by Congress is a provision that will have a tremendous impact on how damages in False Claims…
Discerning the True Meaning of Escobar: the remarkable case of US ex rel Ruckh v. Salus Rehabilitation
USA - January 29 2018 I strongly commend to you the recent case, US and State of Florida ex re Ruckh v. Salus Rehabilitation, LLC, et al, 2018 WL 375720 (1/11/2018, M.D…
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