Editor’s note: Here’s an interesting blog post from our archives that we thought was worth sharing again. The False Claims Act has enabled whistleblowers to expose fraudulent healthcare fiscal violations, while getting financial rewards for their efforts. We feel this is justice being served indeed. The Department of Justice on July 26, 2013 announced it...
Editor’s note: Here’s an interesting blog post from our archives that we thought was worth sharing again. The False Claims Act has enabled whistleblowers to expose fraudulent healthcare fiscal violations, while getting financial rewards for their efforts. We feel this is justice being served indeed. On Wednesday, March 20, 2013, the Department of Justice announced...
Editor’s note: Here’s an interesting blog post from our archives that we thought was worth sharing again. The False Claims Act has enabled whistleblowers to expose fraudulent healthcare fiscal violations, while getting financial rewards for their efforts. We feel this is justice being served indeed. Miguel Jimenez and Marina Sanchez Pajon, owners and operators of...
Editor’s note: Thanks to the False Claims Act, IRS-related fraud is being reported and exposed more than ever due to the brave efforts of whistleblowers – who then get rewarded for their actions. This older blog post is from our Qui Tam archives and is worth viewing and reading again. Just over four years ago,...
Law360, Los Angeles (December 15, 2017, 10:00 PM EST) — Trial attorneys at the top of their high-stress profession are making lists and checking them twice, hoping that this holiday season, they’ll be waking up to find new slates of jury trials, more involved trial courts and more. *** David Berg of Berg & Androphy said it...
Law360, New York (December 13, 2017, 9:40 PM EST) — A New York state judge shot down efforts by investment manager Lynn Tilton and her company, Patriarch Partners, to keep certain tax and business information private in a $45 million dispute with a German lender at a hearing on Wednesday, decisions her attorneys said they...
Law360, Dallas (October 19, 2017, 6:25 PM EDT) — A nursing home operator has paid $5 million to settle claims it billed Medicare and Medicaid for subpar services at a Texas nursing home and rehabilitation facility, after a whistleblower alleged the company provided negligent care, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday. Health Services Management Inc. did...
Joel M. Androphy and Janis Gorton along with the United States and the State of Texas, have reached a $5 million settlement in a False Claims Act case against Health Services Management, Inc. (HSM) and Huntsville Health Care Center (HHCC) involving billing for poor quality of care and worthless services provided to nursing home patients....
October 6, 2017 On Aug. 8, Judge Shira Scheindlin published an op-ed in The New York Times discussing the statistical truth that law firms have poor representation of female attorneys as first-chair trial lawyers. Titled, “Female Lawyers Can Talk, Too,” Judge Scheindlin’s piece observed that progress in making women first-chair trial attorneys at private law...
Sep 15, 2017 at 6:32 PM Today is the official day to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. Be sure to check out Google’s beautiful tribute to Latino cultures in our country. Last month, a Weil Gotshal & Manges team — partner Steven Reiss, former partner Jim Quinn, associates Luna Barrington and David Fitzmaurice, project manager Jorge...
