A federal judge has ordered South Carolina-based Tuomey Healthcare System to pay $227 million for violations of the False Claims Act and the Stark Law.
Tuomey Healthcare System was accused of signing 19 doctors to lucrative part-time contracts that paid well above fair market value in order to continue to receive the referral fees associated with those doctors’...
A federal judge in San Francisco has denied motions for partial summary judgment made by both McKesson Corporation and the Commonwealth of Virginia. The case, involving violations of the Virginia Fraud Against the Taxpayers Act (VFATA), Virginia’s state equivalent of the federal False Claims Act, will proceed to trial. Virginia alleges that...
California-based Kan-Di-Ki, doing business as Diagnostic Laboratories and Radiology (Diagnostic Labs) has agreed to pay $17.5 million to resolve allegations that the company violated both the federal and California False Claims Acts, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today. Kan-Di-Ki allegedly paid kickbacks for the referral of mobile lab and radiology services...
Conax Florida Corp. and related companies have agreed to settle allegations that Conax knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to the U.S. government in connection with improperly tested and non-conforming equipment, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last month.
Conax Florida Corp. designed and manufactured inertia reels and voltage references used...
In the enforcement action Englander v. Weems Industries, Inc., the parties executed a Consent Judgment on February 12, 2013. The case resolved citizen enforcer Peter Englander’s allegations that the defendant Weems Industries, Inc. d/ba/ Legacy Company (“Legacy”) sold grease guns with hand grips containing the heavy metal lead in the State of California...
In the enforcement action Englander v. Vaughan & Bushnell Manufacturing Co., the parties executed a Consent Judgment on June 28, 2013. The case resolved citizen enforcer Peter Englander’s allegations that the defendant Vaughan & Bushnell Manufacturing Co. (“V&B”) sold hammers with grips containing the phthalate chemical di(2-ethylhexyl)...
Whistleblower John Moore resolved his allegations against the defendant Greenlee Textron Inc. (“Greenlee”) in the enforcement action Moore v. Textron Inc.; Greenlee Textron Inc., when the parties executed a Consent Judgment on January 15, 2013. Moore alleged that Greenlee sold hand tools with grips containing the phthalate chemical di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate...
Farideh Heidarpour, her billing company A.B.C. Billing Inc., and her son Ali Heidarpour (who was also her employee) have agreed to pay $1.7 million to settle allegations that her and her company knowingly submitted or caused the submission of false claims to workers’ compensation programs, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California Melinda Haag announced...
In the enforcement action Englander v. Coastal Pet Products, Inc., the parties executed a Consent Judgment on September 10, 2013. The case resolved citizen enforcer Peter Englander’s allegations that the defendant Coastal Pet Products, Inc. (“Coastal Pet”) sold hand tools with grips containing the phthalate chemical di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (“...
The Honorable Mark H. Pierce of the Santa Clara County Superior Court granted the parties’ motion to approve the Consent Judgment in the case Brimer et al. v. 3M Company, et al., on October 23, 2012. This enforcement action resolved citizen enforcers Russell Brimer, John Moore, and Peter Englander’s allegations that sixteen defendants, including Boston...
