North Greenville University has settled a False Claims Act lawsuit for $2.5 million after the federal government alleged the school had illegally used U.S. Department of Education funds to pay for incentive-based student recruitment services. Title IV of the Higher ...

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South Carolina-based U.S. Attorney Sherri Lydon settled a civil lawsuit July 26 for $9.1 million with 3M Company to resolve accusations that it knowingly sold defective earplugs to the United States military. Lydon was joined in bringing the lawsuit by ...

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United States ex rel. Grant v. United Airlines, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-136-17, 17 pp.) (David Norton, J.) 2:15-cv-00794; D.S.C. Holding: Despite detailed allegations about defendant’s purported failures to properly maintain U.S. Air Force planes, the relator has failed to ...

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United States ex rel. Lutz v. Berkeley Heartlab, Inc. (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-128-17, 9 pp.) (Richard Mark Gergel, J.) 9:14-cv-00230; D.S.C. Holding: Common sense and the weight of analogous authority suggests that evidence that medical claims are tainted by an ...

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United States v. Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC (Lawyers Weekly No. 002-232-16, 61 pp.) (J. Michelle Childs, J.) 1:16-cv-00825; D.S.C. Holding: Even if the government didn’t know that its contractor’s parent company – which had loaned employees to the contractor ...

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In a case that’s sure to get the attention of attorneys representing False Claims Act whistleblowers, Murrysville, Pennsylvania-based Respironics Inc. has agreed to pay $34.8 million to settle allegations that the company paid kickbacks to boost sales of equipment used ...

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A pair of lawyers from the Carolinas played a role in securing more than $50 million in payments to settle three whistleblower suits against two medical blood-testing companies accused of paying kickbacks to doctors.

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U.S. ex rel. Kurt Bunk v. Gosselin World Wide Moving NV (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-001-14, 49 pp.) (King, J.) No. 12-1369, Dec. 19, 2013; USDC at Alexandria, Va. (Trenga, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: In awarding a civil penalty in a ...

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U.S. ex rel. Jon H. Oberg v. Kentucky Higher Educ. Student Loan Corp. A district court did not use the correct test when analyzing whether student loan corporations formed by four different states may be sued in a qui tam action alleging they defrauded the U.S. Department of Education; the 4th Circuit vacates a lower court’s dismissal of the suit on the ground that the corporations were “state agencies” not subject to suit under the False Claims Act, and remands for the district court to apply an “arm of the state” analysis.

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U.S. ex rel. Michael K. Drakeford MD v. Tuomey Healthcare System Inc. A federal appeals court vacates a $45 million judgment against a Sumter, S.C., health care system for Stark Law violations and sends the case back, saying the district court’s handling of the case violated the defendant’s Seventh Amendment right to a jury.

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