The False Claims Act of 1863 (FCA) is an American federal law that imposes liability on persons and companies (typically federal contractors) who defraud...

Wales following the Common Informers Act 1951 but remains current in the United States under the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. § 3729 et seq., which allows...

both the civil (False Claims Act) settlement and criminal fine. Glaxo's $3 billion settlement included the largest civil False Claims Act settlement on...

against Medline alleging the company the False Claims Act and the Illinois Whistleblower Reward and Protection Act by: 1) providing bribes and kickbacks...

tens of thousands of false or misleading claims. The Washington Post's fact-checkers documented 30,573 false or misleading claims during his presidential...

issued a series of rulings in three related cases based on the federal False Claims Act. The cases included three separate complaints by three former Kaplan...

Cancel culture Defamation False alarm False arrest False Claims Act False conviction False evidence False imprisonment False statement Legal abuse Lie...

six years. The False Claims Act provides civil remedies for non-government workers. Qui tam is a provision under the False Claims Act that allows private...

awarded US$2.7 million for his role as a whistleblower in a qui tam False Claims Act lawsuit against Redding Medical Center in California. This resulted...

with the U.S. Department of Justice for alleged violations of the False Claims Act. The Justice Department alleged that Shire had improperly marketed...

nature, a "false claim" under the False Claims Act and thus may result in liability under the False Claims Act (including the False Claims Act's treble damages...

the U.S. government. In October 2004, the company was sued under the False Claims Act. As this was the first lawsuit concerning contractors in Iraq, the...

Owens brought a qui tam suit under the False Claims Act in 2008, alleging that First Kuwaiti had billed falsely for deficient work in relation to the embassy...

Melissa (23 February 2022). "US False Claims Act enforcements exceed $5.6 billion in 2021, mostly on health-care related claims". Thomson Reuters. Madar, Chase...

Bernard Madoff, and Jeffrey Skilling. Its earliest progenitor was the False Claims Act of 1863. In 1934, the requirement of an intent to defraud was eliminated...

False advertising is the act of publishing, transmitting, distributing, or otherwise publicly circulating an advertisement containing a false claim, or...

the False Claims Act in federal district court in Boston. In the first off-label promotion case ever litigated in a whistleblower suit under the False Claims...

Compound Drugs. Of this amount $2.5 billion was recovered through False Claims Act cases in FY 2010. Examples of fraud cases include the GlaxoSmithKline...

the FD&C Act and agreed to pay more than $600 million, but only $160 million was allocated to resolve civil claims under the False Claims Act, while the...

"resolution represents the largest amount ever recovered under the False Claims Act from a provider of hospice services." VITAS Healthcare is headquartered...

money was insufficient to bring a fraudulent claim or invoice within the scope of the False Claims Act. The amended subsection (a) of 31 U.S.C. § 3729...

case in which the Court held that in a qui tam action filed under the False Claims Act, the United States may move to dismiss whenever it has intervened —...

Johnson & Johnson—has either settled recent government cases, under the False Claims Act, for hundreds of millions of dollars or is currently under investigation...

were brought about by a former CHS employee in a complaint under the False Claims Act. In October 2015, Community Health Systems paid $13 million to the...

bought Warner-Lambert in 2000) under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act. The suit was commenced by David Franklin, a microbiologist hired in...

as perjury, false declarations, and obstruction of justice and government fraud cases. Its earliest progenitor was the False Claims Act of 1863, and...

fraud. From January 2009 to June 2012, the Justice Department used the False Claims Act to recover more than $7.7 billion in cases involving fraud against...

filed by the United States under the False Claims Act alleging that Greenway caused its users to submit false claims to the government by misrepresenting...

circumvent the law. Damages from fraud can be recovered by use of the False Claims Act, most commonly under the qui tam provisions which rewards an individual...

sued Omnicare, a major supplier of drugs to nursing homes, under the False Claims Act, as well as the parties to the company's illegal kickback schemes....