A Boston jury has found that Unum, the country’s largest disability provider, violated the federal False Claims Act by making a policyholder file with the Social Security Administration for disability benefits before Unum would pay insurance benefits to a disabled policy holder. Unum is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The jury looked at seven insurance claims, [...]
San Diego Unified School District has reached a settlement with the federal government over charges that the district misused more than $1.7 million in federal grant money. The dispute involved an Urban Systemic Initiatives grant, which targets math and science skills in urban school districts. The grant is funded by the National Science Foundation. The [...]
The Ohio EPA will install 12 monitoring wells around Ohio 4 and Keowee Street to test for TCE, or trichloroethylene, contamination recently discovered in the area. The contamination is not an immediate risk to Dayton’s drinking water supply, which is taken from wells in other sections of the city. The wells in this area are [...]
The Millbury Ave. Well and Water Treatment Facility are back in service several weeks after perchlorate found in the water forced a temporary shutdown. The August 28th lab analysis found 10.2 parts per billion of perchlorate in the water, more than five times the amount allowed under Massachusetts 2006 Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) for the [...]
EPA and NJDEP finalize plan for cleanup of Evor Phillips Leasing Co. site in Old Bridge Township, NJ
The EPA and the NJ Dept of Environmental Protection have finalized plans for the cleanup of the Evor Phillips Leasing Co. Superfund site. The site consists of 6 acres of contaminated soil with more than a thousand buried waste containers. After many years metal reclamation and industrial waste treatment at the site, NJDEP investigators found [...]
Tuomey Healthcare System in Sumter, South Carolina is the subject of a lawsuit filed under the False Claims Act, and now joined by the federal government. The case involves job contracts offered to a group of physicians by the Tuomey Outpatient Surgery Center, which contracts are claimed to violate the Stark Law. The federal Stark [...]
Aerojet and Fair Oaks Water District have planned to drill wells to monitor and try to control a plume of groundwater contamination from the Aerojet Superfund site. Trichloroethylene and 1, 4 – dioxane have been identified in the Fair Oaks plume. Some of the places proposed for drilling are on private property, and homeowners have [...]
The EPA’s Region 5 is using money from the Superfund program to construct water line connections to provide the residents of Elkhart, Indiana’s Lane Street area with access to municipal water. The project will connect to the city water supply approximately 30 homes whose well are contaminated or threatened with contamination from an industrial solvent [...]
West Jefferson Medical Center in Marrero, Louisiana has agreed to a substantial settlement to resolve charges filed against it under the False Claims Act. The public hospital is alleged to have collected Medicaid reimbursement for providing Level 1 pediatric-intensive care services, even though the pediatric unit does not qualify for such status. The 307-bed hospital [...]
Armor Holdings Products LLC has reached a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department concerning allegations under the federal False Claims Act that the company knowingly manufactured and sold defective bullet-proof vests. The government alleged that Armor Holdings sold its Zylon bullet-proof vests even though it knew that the vests’ Z Shield Zylon laminate insert degraded [...]