Originally passed during the Civil War, the False Claims Act contains qui tam provisions enabling whistleblowers, also known as ‘relators’, to report government contracting fraud and work directly with government investigators. Once the whistleblower brings forward the suit, the government may interv...
Occasionally, a False Claims Act judgment or settlement will also result in non-monetary benefits to the government. In any of these cases, the Relator is still entitled to a share of the proceeds. Proceeds in Cases with Multiple Relators ...
False Claims Act Litigation: The Basics and Beyond for Qui Tam RelatorsAs rampant fraud and abuse arose in the 2000s, the Federal Government began to expand existing federal laws, and enact new laws, to increase incentives and provide powerful tools to aid potential whistleblowers. In its ...
Ethan P. Davis, Jamie Allyson Lang, Matthew V.H. Noller, King & Spalding LLP OVERVIEW This week’s top False Claims Act (FCA) developments include: a Ninth Circuit decision holding that patent prosecutions are “federal hearings” for purposes of the FCA
State Government’s False Claims Act What is the False Claims Act (FCA) (The Secret Weapon Used To Fight Waste, Abuse and Fraud Against The Government) The False Claims Act (FCA) is important legislation that provides robust protection to relators (whistleblowers). The FCA allows these pri...
obviating the need for the State or relators to show the person submitted an actual false “claim, record, or statement.” Connecticut also expanded the scope of its FCA statute to include claims relating to most state programs and benefits (although explicitly carving out tax-related claims),...
The Supreme Court is considering two False Claims Act (FCA) cases that have the potential to reshape the FCA landscape and impact defense strategy. They are: U.S. ex. Rel. Polansky v. Executive Health Resources, in which it will decide whether the government retains authorit...
Further, relators continue to drive False Claims Act litigation. Qui tam suits constituted a full 87% of DOJ's 2023 recoveries. And relators reaped the rewards. Their share of awards in FCA litigation totaled $267 million, the highest sum in the last four years. Despite qui t...
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California recently announced a settlement of a False Claims Act case against Tungsten Heavy Powder of San Diego (THP), which was filed and prosecuted by the Volkov Law Group on behalf of two relators, Global Tungsten & Powders ...
The settlement agreement consisted of payments to both the federal government and state Medicaid programs and also resolved claims brought under six different qui tam Two of the relators received approximately $3 million of the settlement funds; the respective shares of the other relators were not ...