The U.S. Department of Justice announced this week that United Parcel Service Inc. (“UPS”) has agreed to pay $25 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims to the federal government in connection with its delivery of Next Day Air overnight packages. UPS provides delivery services to hundreds of…
On Tuesday, the Court of Appeals of California revived Los Angeles County’s California False Claims Act case against Accent Builders, Inc. (“ABI”) and Superior Gunite Inc. (“SGI”), saying that the lower court should have ruled that the company’s requests for time extensions and change estimates constituted claims for $5 million…
Moving Water Industries Corporation (“MWI”) has asked the D.C. Circuit to reverse a finding that it violated the False Claims Act in connection with its securing of $74.3 million in loans to fund Nigeria’s purchase of its pumping equipment. The violations were a result of the certifications made by the…
CVS Caremark Corporation (“CVS”) allegedly used $5 discount coupons to attract Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries to fill prescriptions at its stores in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute. Relator Richard Carmel is arguing that the coupons do not fall under an exemption that allows providers to offer items of nominal value.…
Two former employees of Dallas-based South Hampton Community Hospital were allegedly terminated for reporting violations of the False Claims Act to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General. The two were allegedly threatened, harassed, discharged, and otherwise discriminated against for reporting that the hospital…
On Thursday, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals denied Wells Fargo Bank N.A.’s (“Wells Fargo”) attempt to dismiss a complaint filed by two relators alleging that the company defrauded veterans with excessive fees on loans guaranteed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”). The relators brokered thousands of VA…
A former human resources director of American International Group, Inc. (“AIG”) has asked a New York federal judge for permission to amend his False Claims Act complaint against the multinational insurance company, alleging that it defrauded the federal government in connection with the restructuring of the debt that it owed…
Three relators are alleging that AIDS Healthcare Foundation Inc. (“AHF”) violated the federal False Claims Act, the Florida False Claims Act, and the Anti-Kickback Statute through a fraudulent scheme to generate consumer demand for its programs. It was allegedly designed to defraud Medicare, Medicaid, and HIV/AIDS grant programs sponsored by…
Frontier Home Health and Hospice LLC (“Frontier”) filed a complaint yesterday against Amedisys Holding, L.L.C. and Amedisys, Inc. (collectively, “Amedisys”), alleging that the company lied about its fraudulent billing of Medicare in the sale of a group of Wyoming hospices to Frontier. Frontier allegedly learned after it acquired the business…
Today, a federal judge in Florida granted a joint motion to dismiss a case filed under the False Claims Act against Southeastern Aluminum Products Inc. (“Southeastern”) following its settlement with the federal government and the relator that filed the complaint. The Florida-headquartered manufacturer of bath enclosures and shower doors agreed…