Category: Whisteblower

Broad Interpretation of Whistleblower Laws Should Favor Whistleblowers Whistleblowing Whistleblowing has been attracting media attention lately, and for good reason. Individuals are coming forward with important information regarding large corporations breaking regulations. In some cases, these individual employees are terminated, opening a whole new can of worms. Yet, a new […]

Blowing The Whistle On Medicare Fraud Whistleblowing Recently, in the news and elsewhere, whistleblowing has become a hot topic of discussion. Most recently, whistleblowing has also drawn attention due to the awards given out by organizations such as the Internal Revenue Service and Securities and Exchange Commission. Yet, healthcare and […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER California Insurance Code 1871.7 One of the primary aims of the California Insurance Code is to protect individuals from insurance fraud. As a part of that Code, the California Insurance Frauds Prevention Act (“IFPA”) allows anyone to file whistleblower lawsuits against any company engaging in insurance fraud. Indeed, […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Investing Is Good. Investing Well Is Better The Securities Exchange Commission Tips for Investing Recently, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released a few tips to help investors make safer, more informed investments. We thought we should share those with you. 1. Never be afraid of doing a […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Responsibility Matters: What to Know and How to Do It Whistleblowing Whistleblowing is a difficult topic, often because people are reluctant to do it out of uncertainty or unease or, worse, fear of retaliation. But in many cases it is the responsible course of action when one is […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER If You See Something… Blow the Whistle?   Whistleblowing Whistleblowing in the workplace may not be something you hear about often. For anyone who may not know exactly what this entails, whistleblowing is an employee informing someone else about illegal or unethical acts being done by their employer […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER Whistleblowers in Qui Tam Tax Cases In a qui tam tax case, an individual, as known as a whistleblower, reports to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) a tax fraud. The whistleblower or reporter has 3 years from the time the fraudulent tax return was filed for making a […]

ATTORNEY NEWSLETTER A federal jury is currently deliberating if one of the nation’s premiere hospice providers, AseraCare, has fraudulently billed Medicare more than $7 million for 121 patients who were not on the verge of dying. This case is interesting for two reasons. The first reason is that it is […]