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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.
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.
Relator Stevens, a former employee of the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, brought a qui tam civil action against the agency, alleging that the state agency had submitted false claims to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in connection with federal grant programs the EPA administered. [3]
The first qui tam case under the amended False Claims Act was filed in 1987 by an eye surgeon against an eye clinic and one of its doctors, alleging unnecessary surgeries and other procedures were being performed. [18] The case settled in 1988 for a total of $605,000. However, the law was primarily used in the beginning against defense contractors.
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 ...
In August 1996, Franklin and attorney Thomas Greene filed a qui tam complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts in Boston under the False Claims Act, a federal statute which permits private citizen-whistleblowers (also known as "relators") to sue on behalf of the federal government for fraud involving federal ...
Oliver is one of a handful of attorneys who specialize in representing whistleblowers who bring lawsuits under a Civil War-era law that encourages people to report fraud against the government. These so-called qui tam cases are filed under seal, with the hope that the Justice Department will investigate and then join in.
The company claimed that not all the documents Young took were related to his qui tam lawsuit and that he gave the documents to a competitor. Young's attorney moved to have the case dismissed ...