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Legal Focus: Insurance firms should prepare for a rise in whistleblowing claims - Insurance Day
Whistleblowing claims can be attractive in that they offer uncapped compensation in contrast to ‘standard’ unfair dismissal claims 25 Oct 2024 Opinion There has been a surge of whistleblowing...
Read moreGreece Drops Anonymity for Novartis Case Whistleblowers - OCCRP
The move of the country’s financial crime prosecution, according to Greek media, opens the way for potential criminal charges against the very witnesses who helped expose the scandal. The two whis...
Read moreProtection Status Lifted for Alleged Whistleblowers in Novartis Case - The National Herald
Politics ATHENS – The protected status of two alleged whistleblowers who claimed bribes were paid to government officials by the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis – which wasn’t proved – has be...
Read moreColumn: A Trump judge just overturned the government's most effective anti-fraud tool, which has stood for 150 years - Los Angeles Times
Since 1986, whistleblowers have been in the forefront of the government’s war on fraud, accounting for $53 billion, or more than 70%, of the $75 billion recovered from swindlers on defense contrac...
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FALSE CLAIMS ACT—D. Md.: FCA claims over VSL#3 marketing dismissed for failure to plead false claim submissions - VitalLaw.com
The court found the relator did not allege specific reimbursement requests or facts linking challenged promotional statements to government payments. A Maryland federal district court dismissed a ...