The federal government’s civil recoveries for false claims during FY2018 topped $2.8 billion. Health care fraud claims lead the collection. Government Rakes in Billions The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently released statistics for its civil False Claims Act (“FCA”) recoveries during FY2018. Although that total is lower than in some previous years, the trajectory of recoveries … Continue Reading
A recent blog post summarized an opinion in which a district court catalogued his reasons for rejecting a corporate “C” plea involving a pharmaceutical company. Several developments have occurred since the court’s opinion including a plea and sentencing hearing scheduled for January 30, 2018. Please see the Anticorruption blog here for an update on this matter.… Continue Reading
June 16, 2017, marks the one-year anniversary of the precedent-setting U.S. Supreme Court decision in Universal Health Services v. United States ex rel. Escobar (Escobar), which approved the implied false certification theory as a basis for liability under the False Claims Act (FCA). Because the decision impacts every provider who supplies goods and services to … Continue Reading
