Qui Tam Litigation

The attorneys at Berg & Androphy have extensive involvement in prosecuting qui tam litigation cases and defending white collar criminal cases. Recently, the firm served as lead whistleblower's counsel in qui tam settlements with King Pharmaceuticals that netted the government and the whistleblower about $119 million, and with Pfizer that netted the government and the whistleblower about $46 million, both involving best price issues.

The firm represents whistleblowers nationwide in many large health care fraud cases as well as other types of cases involving fraud against the government. The firm handles all cases on a contingency fee basis, meaning that the firm earns a fee only it is successful for the whistleblower. The firm also represents individual and corporate defendants in white collar criminal cases including qui tam matters.

For more information, email quitam@bafirm.com.

Some questions often asked by whistleblowers about Federal qui tam cases include:

• What do I have to prove?
  
• What are the pitfalls?
  
• What is the potential recovery?
  
• How do I file?
  
  

Defendants often ask:

• “What is my civil exposure?
  
• “Do I have criminal exposure?
  
• “What are the risks of litigation?
  
• “What are the defenses?
  

In order to assist whistleblowers and corporate defendants with these and other questions about the False Claims Act, Joel Androphy has just written a book entitled “Federal False Claims Act and Qui Tam Litigation” published by Law Journal Press (2006). Also, the firm has written several published articles on the qui tam laws. The articles are entitled: