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In the United States, that type of fraud may be a violation of the False Claims Act, or similar state and local laws, and a whistleblower who exposes fraud on the government may bring a qui tam lawsuit on behalf of the government and potentially receive a share of the recovery recovered by the government as a reward for bringing that action.
Qui tam is an abbreviated form of the Latin legal phrase qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur ("he who brings a case on behalf of our lord the King, as well as for himself") [11] In a qui tam action, the citizen filing suit is called a "relator".
qui tam: abbreviation of qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur, meaning "who pursues in this action as much for the king as himself". In a qui tam action, one who assists the prosecution of a case is entitled to a proportion of any fines or penalties assessed. quid pro quo: this for that
The qui tam rules are part of the False Claims Act, a Civil War-era law that was enacted in response to reports of wholesale plundering by suppliers of military goods and ammo to the War Department.
Buried in there was this scoop: The government had finally jumped into Sheller’s qui tam cases brought by Vicki Starr and the others. “The Government has notified [Johnson & Johnson] that there are also pending qui tam actions alleging off-label promotion of RISPERDAL ®,” it read
A qui tam (in the name of the king) action may be brought by any party (as a relator) against an entity that is fraudulently collecting money from the United States government by filing false claims. The party bringing the suit – the relator – must have possession of information substantiating the claim of fraud against the government.
A Trenton federal judge has dismissed a False Claims Act suit against Sanofi and Bristol-Myers Squibb over anti-blood clot drug Plavix, citing a change in the composition of the partnership that ...
The FBI estimates that Health Care Fraud costs American tax payers $80 billion a year. [2] Of this amount $2.5 billion was recovered through False Claims Act cases in FY 2010. Most of these cases were filed under qui tam provisions. Over the course of FY 2010, whistleblowers were paid a total of $307,620,401.00 for their part in bringing the ...