by admin | Dec 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
I don’t think I’ve ever lost my childlike excitement about Christmas. Every year I look forward to family, friends, church, great meals, and lots of fun. So for me it is hard to even think about a family being devastated by a fatal car wreck around the...
by admin | Dec 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
Christmas being such a happy season, it is hard to associate it with death or serious personal injuries. But if this year is anything like the most recent statistics available from the National Highway & Traffic Administration, between 10 and 25 people will lose...
by admin | Dec 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
As a lawyer who represents whistleblowers, I have been appalled at some very unfair criticism levied at False Claims Act cases. Using statistics such as the ones cited by David Krok in a recent article in the American Bar Association’s Public Contract Law...
by admin | Dec 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
I am a False Claims Act lawyer, and I am doing a series of articles addressing criticism of the Act. A recent article in the Public Contract Law Journal, published by the American Bar Association, gave grim statistics about the success rate for relators...
by admin | Dec 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’m an Atlanta car wreck lawyer, and I’m on a one-woman quest to see whether we can get Georgia drivers to slow down and drive more carefully over this Christmas holiday. Over the 2009 Christmas holiday (the latest data available), ten people were killed...
by admin | Dec 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
An article in the American Bar Association’s Public Contract Law Journal (p. 241) “Evidence from the False Claims Act: Does Private Enforcement Attract Excessive Litigation”, is being cited by critics of the False Claims Act. The gist of the article...
by admin | Nov 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
This Thanksgiving weekend Georgians will head out to be with families and friends. We’ll eat and visit and be grateful for all we have been given in this nation. Some of us, of course, also will shop! But the sad truth is that some of us here in Georgia may die...
by admin | Nov 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
Well, this certainly makes me feel safer . . . NOT. DOJ is intervening in a False Claims Act lawsuit against a company accused of failing to do background investigations on people who were applying to work for government agencies. The company, DSIS, was hired to vet...
by admin | Nov 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announced that the Obama administration will not consider the federal insurance exchange or the subsidies the Government pays to insurance companies to be “federal health care programs.” For most...
by admin | Nov 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
As a lawyer representing Medicare fraud whistleblowers, I am used to seeing stories about Medicare scams in South Florida. After all, South Florida is the epicenter of Medicare fraud in the U.S. But Jay Weaver of the Miami Herald is reporting that many of these...
