Book: United States ex rel. Rodriguez v. Hughes, et al., Relators Version
by Paul J. Zwier, Reuben Guttman, Matthew J. McCoyd, Alexander G. Barney The three case files of United States ex rel. Rodriguez v. Hughes, et al.… explore the suit brought by Juan Rodriguez, a...
Government By Contract: The White House Needs Capacity To Account For The Legacy Of 20th Century Reform
By Dan Guttman Signature priorities of the Bush and Obama administrations highlighted the deep and oft unaccountable roles of private contractors in the basic work of government, including natio...
Corporate Compliance Programs: Pretext or Panacea?
Proponents of corporate compliance programs loudly sing their praises while detractors point to ceaseless prosecutions and a parade of civil suits—often resulting in multi-billion dollar verdicts...
Whistleblower Case Results In $28 Million Settlement; Case Is Reminder That Healthcare Fraud Is An Important Election Year Issue
Washington, D.C. -- A whistleblower case alleging the payment of kickbacks by Abbott Laboratories to induce prescriptions for the drug Depakote, for elderly patients in nursing homes, has resulte...
Whistleblower Case Results In $28 Million Settlement
Case Is Reminder That Healthcare Fraud Is An Important Election Year Issue WASHINGTON, Oct. 17, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A whistleblower case alleging the payment of kickbacks...
GBB files amicus on behalf of law professors in FCA case before Supreme Court
Congress intended the False Claims Act to apply broadly and reach all fraudulent attempts to cause the United States Government to pay out money. In Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United Stat...
Doctors promoting treatments on social media routinely fail to disclose ties to drug makers
by Sheila Kaplan (Statnews.com) Washington - Physicians across the United States routinely offer medical advice on social media — but often fail to mention that they have accepted tens and somet...
A Failure of Remedies: The Case of Big Pharma (An Essay)
By Paul J. Zwier and Reuben Guttman Emory Corporate Governance and Accountability Review Emory Law This article examines the U.S. pharmaceutical industry and the harms imposed on individual pati...
District of South Carolina Settles Long Term Care Pharmacy Whistle Blower Case Completing Final Leg of Anemia Drug Litigation
Columbia, South Carolina ------ A $2.5 million settlement with Pharmerica, a long term care pharmacy servicing hundreds of nursing homes across the nation, completes the final leg of litigation i...
Whistleblower program will be one of the most significant national gatherings of 2016
Feb. 18 and 19, the Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution and the Emory Corporate Governance and Accountability Review will partner to present “Fraud Against the Government & SEC Whistle...
Reuben Guttman: The lawyer pharma loves to hate
By KAREN WEINTRAUB @kweintraub Reuben Guttman wants us all to be concerned about what’s in our medicine cabinets. A Washington lawyer who specializes in prosecuting pharmaceutical fraud, G...
The Importance of Whistleblowers
Whistleblowers are of vital importance to regulators, helping them put the pieces of the jigsaw together, says Reuben Guttman. Back in 2013, HSBC whistleblower, Herve Falciani, told the German p...
The Art of Advocacy
Judges are now insisting that plaintiffs make their case with facts instead of merely putting their clients on notice of a claim. When the United States Supreme Court issued its decisions in Bel...
Advocacy is a two way street
Young lawyers learning about advocacy need to understand how judges think if they are to master the skill, says Reuben Guttman. Young advocates or trial lawyers often labour under the conception...
Renewed Attention on an Old Legal Doctrine
by Reuben A. Guttman. Guttman practices law with Guttman, Buschner & Brooks PLLC A half century ago, in Boire v. Greyhound, 376 US 473 (1964), the United States Supreme Court opined that tw...
Claiming credit for False Claims Act success in 2014
At year's end, here in the nation's capital there is the ritual they call "credit claiming." Legislators claim credit for everything from corn and soy subsidies, programs or pieces of legislation...
Tort Reform: A Lion in Sheep’s Clothing
Tort reformers cite a range of cases as frivolous litigation. But, says Reuben Guttman, many of these lawsuits raise fundamental issues. The United States Chamber of Commerce, a few academics an...
Original Source and The Third Circuit
Yesterday, the 3rd Circuit issued an opinion regarding direct and independent knowledge requirement of the original source exception to the public disclosure bar. It found that, among other thin...
A Tale of Two Cases
The SEC needs more transparency The SEC needs to begin identifying those receiving bounties as another $30 million goes to an unidentified whistleblower, says Reuben Guttman of Guttman, Buschner...
Arbitrary application of law in a global economy
by Reuben A. Guttman. Guttman practices law with Guttman, Buschner & Brooks PLLC There are more than 3,000 drug trials being conducted in China. Indeed, data from these trials is almost ce...
Do We Really Trust Corporations To Investigate Their Own Profitable Impropriety?
by Reuben A. Guttman. Guttman practices law with Guttman, Buschner & Brooks PLLC. Can a corporation really investigate its own behavior? Do internal compliance programs really work, or does...
Another Reminder of Why Corporations Cannot Police Themselves
This article, written by Reuben Guttman and Traci Buschner who practice law with Guttman, Buschner & Brooks PLLC. Published in the McClatchy-Tribune News Service on August 13, 2014. What kin...
CHS Cites ‘Shifting’ Standards in Fraud Allegation Settlement
This interview with Reuben Guttman, who practices law with Guttman, Buschner & Brooks PLLC in Washington DC. and who represented three Plaintiff-Relators in United States ex rel. Doghram...
Does Government Really Have the Watchful Eyes to Privatize?
Certain things in life are predictable. A kid tilts the gumball machine when the candy does not roll out. A soda machine is kicked when the pop gets stuck. A baseball manager is fired when a team...