New Jersey-based accounting firm PKF O’Connor Davies LLP convinced a federal district court that arbitration is required to resolve a dispute with a former partner that says the firm violated the False Claims Act’s anti-retaliation provision.
Michael Andriola’s claims against the firm fall within the scope of the parties’ 2024 partner services agreement, which provides that any controversy arising out of the agreement must be resolved in arbitration, Judge Georgette Castner of the US District Court for the District of New Jersey said in a Thursday nonprecedential opinion.
Castner also said FCA claims are arbitrable, despite Andriola’s argument that the ...
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Foley partner Lisa Noller, Chair of the Firm’s Litigation Department, will be speaking at the American Bar Association’s Qui Tam & Civil False Claims and Healthcare Fraud Institute in Washingt...