by admin | Jul 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
CDW-Government, LLC, has agreed it will pay $5.66 million to settle a whistleblower’s lawsuit brought under the False Claims Act. According to a United States Department of Justice press release, the suit alleged that CDW violated its contract with the United...
by admin | Jul 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
Most people might be embarrassed to admit that they have been repeatedly accused of cheating the American taxpayers. Defense contracting giant KBR, however, tried to use the fact to its advantage. It argued that a court should dismiss a whistleblower’s lawsuit...
by admin | Jul 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
I guess nobody much cared about the food that night. According to a whistleblower lawsuit filed by a former manager at pharmaceutical manufacturer Cephalon, at a 2008 sales launch meeting the company passed out cash – literally. The suit, which is filed under...
by admin | Jul 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
The FBI is accusing a Chicago hospital of taking Medicare fraud and Medicaid fraud to an appalling level. According to FBI allegations about the Medicare and Medicaid fraud, secret tape recordings prove that doctors at Sacred Heart Hospital in Chicago intentionally...
by admin | Jul 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
Every year nearly 20 people die on Georgia’s roads over the Fourth of July weekend. I want to urge all of my blog readers to be extremely careful as they hit the road this weekend for family day trips, vacations, and fireworks shows. A few months back I did some...
by admin | Jul 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
Two highway contractors have agreed to pay nearly $2,883,947 to resolve a lawsuit brought by a whistleblower. The whistleblower reported that the companies were falsely claiming they were disadvantaged business enterprises in order to get an advantage in getting...
by admin | Jun 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
Will Pennsylvania get a new – albeit somewhat half-hearted – False Claims Act? Two legislators are urging the State to adopt a Pennsylvania False Claims Act that would at least allow the state to recover for health care fraud against the state. As a...
by admin | May 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
Georgia drivers need to be particularly careful to avoid car accidents as we come up on this Memorial Day weekend. We tend to think of New Year’s Eve as being particularly dangerous for drivers, and it is. But a lesser-known fact is that people are killed in car...
by admin | May 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
In a recent study done for the Georgia Department of Transportation, which looked at incidents that occurred at 13 different exits along I-85, Jimmy Carter Boulevard had – by far — the largest number of incidents. As a car accident attorney, I have seen...
by admin | May 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
If you have been following my blog, you know that I am a lawyer who represents people injured in car wrecks, and I like to keep up with the information about the crashes that occur in and around Georgia. I recently read an interesting GDOT study that looked at the...
