High Court False Claims Ruling Underscores Communication Is Key
Federal contractors should avoid taking unjustifiable risks when interpreting regulations—and then submitting bills to the US government— if they want to stay out of False Claims Act trouble....
CLE: The Art of Drafting and Responding to Effective Demand Letters
Telephone Seminar, 6/21/2023, Noon - 1:30 | Learn the latest on The Art of Drafting and Responding to Effective Demand Letters CLE with this convenient, telephonic seminar with visual access to w...
On Demand CLE: Pretrial False Claims Act Litigation
Federal Bar Association Webinar - Recorded May 3, 2023 The False Claims Act, which dates back to the Lincoln Administration, provides the government the right to pursue individuals or entities...
Whistleblowers accuse Erlanger of illegal billing for concurrent surgeries that left patients unsupervised
A federal whistleblower lawsuit filed against Erlanger Health System accuses hospital leaders of illegal billing practices by knowingly overlapping surgeries and allowing trainees to operate on p...
UPMC, head of cardiothoracic surgery will pay $8.5M to feds to settle lawsuit
"Patients don’t know their doctors are serving two masters." UPMC, a renowned cardiothoracic surgeon there and a physicians group will pay the federal government $8.5 million to settle a law...
CLE: Demand Letters and Pre-Complaint Settlement
Program Summary Civil litigation is no more than a process to resolve disputes. Most cases never go to trial because the process is designed to provide parties with sufficient information abou...
Demanding more impact from impact litigation: lessons to be learned from multi-state opioid settlements
By Reuben Guttman and Liza Vertinsky, July 25, 2022 In the 1990s, state Attorneys General learned how to leverage their resources when they retained private counsel to sue the...
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...