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Proactively Protecting Yourself From Retaliation in a Whistleblower Claim
There are many good reasons to come forward with a whistleblower claim when you come across evidence of illegal behavior on the job. There are always victims to illegal corporate behavior - often unseen or at least distant from the company, but victims nonetheless -...
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Severance Agreement Restricts Whistleblowing? Read This
Severance agreements have long been used to reach amicable - or at the very least, mutually beneficial - resolutions to an individual’s employment with a firm. By definition, a severance agreement is a new agreement that stands apart from any previous agreements...
Whistleblower Doctor’s Estate to Receive at Least $4.8 Million Reward
Dr. Darren Sewell worked as a physician and health care director for Freedom Health, a Tampa-based HMO, from 2007 to 2012, and two years into his tenure at the HMO, he worked with an attorney to file a federal lawsuit against Freedom Health based on widespread...
IRS Whistleblower Awards Up 300%+ in 2016
The IRS has had the power to make awards to whistleblowers for exactly 150 years as of 2017 (the initial law allowing for awards, which is still on the books, was enacted in 1867), and the agency is showing no signs of slowing down the process of making such awards....
How Much of a Whistleblowing Award Can I Expect From Reporting IRS Tax Fraud?
Tax fraud costs the U.S. government $458 billion a year, which works out to thousands of dollars per honest taxpayer. The IRS has only limited ability to detect taxpayer fraud, however, which is why for many years it has awarded ordinary citizens who relay information...
First SEC Whistleblower of Trump Era to Receive $4 Million Award
When President Trump was elected into office, many wondered what an administration change would mean for the SEC Whistleblower Program which had awarded nearly $150 million to whistleblowers since being created as part of the Obama administration’s historic Dodd-Frank...
Judge Triples FCA Jury Award to $347 Million
One of the key challenges in bringing a False Claims Act (FCA) claim is to make a compelling case to the jury that the evidence proffered by the plaintiff justifies the full amount of damages requested. Oftentimes, a jury may award less than what is requested by the...