Federal False Claims Act Penalties Increase
Federal False Claims Act Penalties Increase As regular readers know, any person violating the FCA is liable to the United States for treble damages, attorney’s fees and costs, and civil penalties of not less […]
Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act Case Settles for $63 million
Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act Case Settles for $63 million What is true in sports is also true in other contexts — records, dear readers, were made to be broken. For a number of […]
Changes to Eastern District of Virginia’s Local Rules could be problematic for False Claims Act practice
Changes to the Local Civil Rules in the Eastern District of Virginia could be problematic for qui tam practice under the federal False Claims Act Today’s post focuses on the Local Civil Rules in […]
Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act Settlement with UPS
Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act Settlement with UPS As regular readers know, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring has shown considerable interest in enforcing the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act. He has taken steps to […]
Importance of Well-Pleaded Complaints in False Claims Act litigation
Importance of Well-Pleaded Complaints in False Claims Act litigation Today we will revisit one of my favorite themes on this blog — the importance of a well-pleaded Complaint in qui tam litigation under the federal […]
Virginia Intervenes in Trinity Highway Qui Tam Lawsuit
Virginia Intervenes in Trinity Highway Qui Tam Lawsuit Yesterday Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring announced the Commonwealth’s intervention in a qui tam lawsuit against Trinity Highway Products, LLC and Trinity Industries Inc. The […]
Importance of false claims act qui tam Complaints in FCA litigation
Importance of false claims act qui tam complaints in FCA litigation Today’s blog post is part one a several part post concerning a question from a regular reader of this blog. Specifically, he […]
Affirmative Civil Enforcement Unit for VFATA claims
Affirmative Civil Enforcement Unit for VFATA claims Following on the heels of my last post – which covered the Virginia Medicaid Fraud Control Unit receiving the Honest Abe Award from Taxpayers Against […]
Virginia Medicaid Fraud Control Unit Receives “Honest Abe” Award at Fourteenth Annual TAF Conference
Update from the Fourteenth Annual Taxpayers Against Fraud Conference: Virginia Medicaid Fraud Control Unit Receives a Well-Deserved Award and Attorney General Mark Herring Announces a Major Intervention The Fourteenth Annual Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund […]
Qui Tam Complaints shall be filed in camera and placed under seal
Qui Tam Complaints shall be filed in camera and placed under seal I have received questions from several readers over the past year or so about the seal requirements of the federal False […]