Whistleblowers and fears of losing funds key to enforcing U.S. vaccine rules
Workplace whistleblowers and a fear of losing federal funds are expected to play vital roles in ensuring compliance with COVID-19 vaccine mandates ordered by President Joe Biden’s administration...
Reuben A. Guttman, District of Columbia Fellow, Co-Publishes “Pretrial Advocacy”
District of Columbia Fellow Reuben A. Guttman has co-authored a new book, “Pretrial Advocacy,” to be released by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. (Now available in print and e-book here...
Book: New Pretrial Advocacy Book Addresses New Norms in Transformed Field of Litigation
A new book on pretrial advocacy, published this week by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) and Wolters Kluwer, takes on a world of litigation that has been radically transformed in...
On the Rule of Law: Now is the Time to Rethink the Role of Law Schools
In his opening remarks to a Senate Judiciary Committee charged with reviewing his nomination to be Attorney General of the United States, Judge Merrick Garland noted that “communities of color an...
Oglethorpe Inc. Agrees to Pay $10.25 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Lawsuit
Florida based Oglethorpe Inc. and it's three Ohio treatment facilities will pay $10.25 million to settle allegations of illegal patient kickback provisions, unnecessary inpatient admission, and...
With Biden Team Focused On Other Crises, Experts Say Drug Epidemic Is Exploding
"It's a front-burner issue on any day of the week but not on this day... And that's a real problem," says firm Partner Reuben Guttman of the Biden administration's current handle on the nations u...
Insitu Inc. to Settle False Claims Allegations for $25 million
Washington State company Insitu Inc., an unmanned aerial vehicle contractor, has agreed to pay $25 million to settle allegations that it submitted false cost and pricing data for determination of...
Texas Heart Hospital to Pay $48 million to Resolve Allegations of False Claims
The DOJ has announced that Texas Heart Hospital of the Southwest LLP and its subsidiary THHBP Management Company, LLC have agreed to pay the US $48 million to settle allegations that the hospital...
Firm Update: Academic Faculty Appointment and a New Book
GBB Founding Partner, Reuben Guttman, has been appointed to the faculty of the American University School of Public Affairs as a Professorial Lecturer; he will be teaching equal protection in the...
FIRST PERSON: Don’t Muzzle the Whistleblowers
RIPPING OFF THE U.S. government has reached epidemic proportions. The Department of Justice estimates that fraud costs the Medicare system alone between $30-$60 billion annually. But instead of f...
Advanced Care Scripts Inc., $1.4 million
United States of America ex rel. Paul Nee v. Biogen, Inc., et. al. District of Massachusetts. GBB attorneys settled this qui tam suit against Advanced Care Scripts and Biogen, one of the world...
Biogen Inc., $22 million
United States of America ex rel. Paul Nee v. Biogen, Inc., et. al. District of Massachusetts. GBB attorneys settled this qui tam suit against Advanced Care Scripts and Biogen, one of the...
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan to Settle False Claims Act Allegations
Oakland, CA based Kaiser Foundation Health Plan has agreed to pay $6.3 million to settle allegations that it submitted false Medicare Advantage patient diagnoses in order to receive inflated paym...
Peer Review Doesn’t Apply in False Claims Act Suit
Massachusetts General Hospital could not assert the medical peer review privilege to block production of documents sought by a whistleblower in her False Claims Act suit over the hospital’s alleg...
DOJ Announces $24.9 million Settlement with Guild Mortgage Company
San Diego based Guild Mortgage Company, participant in the Federal Housing Administration insurance program, has agreed to pay $24.9 million to resolve allegations that it caused the submission o...
Geissler v. Sterling
District of South Carolina. GBB lawyers contributed to this class action lawsuit, filed against the Department of Correction, alleging that South Carolina prisoners recieved inadequate testin...
Free Virtual Seminar by Online Courtroom Project and NITA
As courts around the country have struggled to continue operations in the face of the unprecedented coronavirus pandemic, each state and the federal courts have issued their own set of guidelines...
Santee Christian College to Pay $225,000 Over Federal Violations on Recruiting
San Diego Christian College in Santee will pay $225,000 to resolve allegations that it compensated a student recruiting company in violation of a federal ban on incentive-based compensation, the ...
California University To Pay $225,000 For Allegedly Violating Ban On Incentive Compensation
Department of Justice, October 19, 2020 WASHINGTON – San Diego Christian College (SDCC), based in Santee, California, will pay $225,000 to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act for s...
Virtual Attorney Seminar: False Claims Act: Offense and Defense
Description Each year private citizen suits under the False Claims Act have returned billions of dollars to Federal and State treasuries. These suits leverage the government’s compliance enfor...
ON-Demand Podcast: Covid-19 Whistleblower and Qui Tam CLE: Collecting Evidence & Making the Claim
Learn the latest on Mastering Bad Faith & Covid-19 Litigation with this convenient, 24/7 On-demand Seminar & Complimentary Podcast. Register to obtain CLE & MCLE credit, online access...
Hudson Valley Hematology Oncology Associates, $5.3 million
U.S. ex rel. Abrahamsen v. Hudson Valley, Southern District of New York. Firm attorneys brought a qui tam suit against Hudson Valley Hematology Oncology Associates (Hudson Valley), a New York...
Oral Roberts University, $300,000
United States ex rel. Shoe v. Oral Roberts University, District of South Carolina. GBB attorney's brought this False Claims Act case against Oklahoma based ORU alleging that the university ha...
Boeing Company, $40 million
US Ex Rel. Roby v. Boeing Co., Southern District of Ohio. Firm attorneys represented the relator in this False Claims Act suit alleging that the Boeing Company defrauded the US Government by...