Tag Archives: labor and employment
Dignity Health Pays $37 Million after Alleged FCA Violations
Dignity Health recently agreed to pay approximately $37 million to the United States in a Fair Claims Act violation settlement. According to the allegations against Dignity Health, a hospital system based in San Francisco (and one of the five largest hospital systems in America), 13 of its hospitals throughout California, Arizona and Nevada were guilty […]
Four Whistleblowers Win Big in Case Against Boeing
Four whistleblowers will be awarded a sum of $3.9 million after reporting intentional overcharges made to the United States Air Force by airplane manufacturer Boeing. Boeing paid $23 million total in settlements after the allegations arose that the company defrauded taxpayers (who fund the Air Force budget) by deliberately charging too much money for maintenance […]
SEC Will Pay Largest Whistleblower Award Yet
The SEC’s whistleblower office has been in place since 2011, and in that time has handed out nine monetary awards to whistleblowers. It is about to hand out its largest award yet: a minimum $30 million reward to an unidentified whistleblower. At this time, the details of the case have not been made available to […]
New OSHA Rules Coming in 2015
By taking a look at the Unified Regulatory Agenda for Fall 2014, one can see that there are various plans for OSHA and other federal agencies to institute some new guidelines heading into the New Year. OSHA in particular is expected to add three rules in 2015 that will address several items: Injury and […]
