Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (Bryan Cave) | USA | 31 Jan 2018
Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that in the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, it recovered over $3.7 billion…
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (Bryan Cave) | USA | 14 Mar 2017
False Claims Act (“FCA”) cases involving medical necessity continue to receive great attention. A March 7, 2017 opinion that overruled a jury’s…
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (Bryan Cave) | USA | 17 Aug 2016
Since the late 1990s, the False Claims Act ("FCA") heavily affected the healthcare industry. In 2015, two-thirds of FCA lawsuits targeted healthcare…
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (Bryan Cave) | USA | 17 Jun 2016
In a highly anticipated ruling, the Supreme Court imposed important limits on the implied certification theory of liability under the False Claims…
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (Bryan Cave) | USA | 5 Apr 2016
Adding its voice to an issue soon to be argued before the Supreme Court, an Alabama federal court recently dismissed a False Claims Act ("FCA")…
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (Bryan Cave) | USA | 4 Apr 2016
On March 31, 2016, in United States v. AseraCare, Inc, No. 2:12-cv-245-KOB, 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 42986 (N.D. Ala. Mar. 31, 2016), the district court…
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (Bryan Cave) | USA | 2 Oct 2015
On September 29, 2015, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit agreed to review whether statistical sampling can be used to prove…
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (Bryan Cave) | USA | 23 Sep 2015
Three recent settlements with the U.S. Department of Justice, (all qui tam"whistleblower" actions), highlight the Government's continuing efforts to…