The Federal Government Gets Serious About Collecting Overpayments
Regular readers will recall past blog posts about government overpayments. This week more attention was focused on this topic with the introduction of the 2011 Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act (S.1409). As incredible as it may seem to the uninitiated, […]
Commonsense Steps State and Local Governments Can Take to Fight Fraud and Strengthen False Claims Act Enforcement, Part II—Funding a State Affirmative Civil Enforcement Unit
In an earlier post, I discussed a few basic common sense things that state and local governments can do to cut down on fraud. Among those suggestions was to have a state false claims act, and then to make sure that […]
Court Ordered Attorney’s Fees under the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act and the federal False Claims Act
SCOTUS has issued two new opinions concerning court-awarded attorney’s fees in the last year or so, and since the new
Today the New Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act Goes Into Effect
New laws passed by the Virginia General Assembly in its regular session and signed by the Governor traditionally go into effect on July 1, and today is no different. Among the new laws going into effect today is the amended Virginia Fraud […]
Commonsense Steps State and Local Governments Can Take to Fight Fraud and Strengthen False Claims Act Enforcement
Regular readers know that the single most important step a state government can take to limit fraudulent requests for payment is to pass a state false claims act modeled on the federal False Claims Act. A state false claims act modeled on the […]
Interesting Reading from the Wall Street Journal…
Carrick Mollenkamp and Tom McGinty over at the Wall Street Journal did an article this week that may be of interest to readers … here are some links to the explanatory graphics on WSJ.com. Here is a link to a WaPo article […]
Announcing the First New York State False Claims Act Conference
In a strong show of New York state’s support for its False Claims Act, today New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced a CLE-certified conference on the strengthened New York False Claims Act. The conference will take place on […]
Judge Payne says “Hire Local Counsel in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia”
The Virginia Lawyers Weekly blog has an excellent post today on the importance of local counsel in the Rocket Docket. Indeed, lawyers outside the rocket docket are often unfamiliar with the speed and intensity of litigation in the E.D.Va., and little things–like the fact […]
Why do you think all the most business-friendly states have state False Claims Acts?
Over the past few years I have noticed that certain questions and objections sometimes arise when a state considers a state False Claims Act. Today’s post deals with the single most common objection and/or question. As an aside, I have also […]
Important Considerations for Settlement in a Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act case
As I have said many times, there is no practice area quite as complicated as false claims act litigation under either the federal False Claims Act or the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act (or for that matter under any of […]