According to state officials, increased enforcement has helped the state of Texas recover more than $500 million in Medicaid fraud cases since 2007. David Morales, deputy first assistant attorney general, told Texas state senators earlier this week that the increase coincides with the expansion of the Texas Medicaid civil fraud division four years ago. State [...]
An arbitrator has ruled that Dimitrios Biller, a former Toyota attorney turned whistleblower, can submit internal Toyota documents in court to prove his claim that the company instructed him to hide evidence of product defects from the public. Biller, who handled product liability lawsuits for Toyota, claims the automaker regularly hid evidence of safety defects [...]
Four states and 43 cities, towns and water districts in California have joined in a False Claims Act lawsuit against JM Eagle, a California PVC pipe maker alleged to have sold defective PVC pipes to government-owned utilities across the country. The states involved include Nevada, Virginia, Tennessee and Delaware.
The United States has settled a whistleblower lawsuit filed against Florida doctor Todd J. Scarbrough, MD and Melbourne Internal Medicine Associates P.A. (MIMA). The doctor and MIMA have consented to pay an enormous sum to resolve the suit’s claims that they violated the federal False Claims Act by presenting false claims for payment to Medicare [...]
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