Changes to the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act as of July 1, 2012
Changes to the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act as of July 1, 2012. A new and amended version of the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act took effect on July 1, 2012. The changes were mostly cosmetic, but there are some interesting provisions. For example, the much-discussed “public disclosure bar” has been amended to read…
Delaware Attorney General Joe Biden Jr. Intervenes in Delaware False Claims Act Case Case Concerning Unclaimed Property
Delaware Attorney General Joe Biden Jr. Intervenes in Delaware False Claims Act Case Case Concerning Unclaimed PropertyAs regular readers know, I am a proponent of using state false claims acts to pursue unclaimed property suits against Holders of Unclaimed Property. I am also a proponent of aggressive enforcement of state false claims acts, regardless…
K&G Law Group, PLLC Announces the Launch of www.VirginiaQuiTamLawyers.com
Announcing the Launch of VirginiaQuiTamLawyers.comOn behalf of K&G Law Group PLLC I am happy to announce the launch of a new webpage dedicated to the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act and to qui tam litigation in Virginia — www.VirginiaQuiTamLawyers.com As with any webpage, it is very much a work in progress, so check back frequently for new articles…
New First Circuit Opinion Holds Important Lessons for Lawyers Interested in Bringing Qui Tam Cases…
New First Circuit Opinion Holds Important Lessons for Lawyers Interested in Bringing Qui Tam Cases…An important new opinion was published this week by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit — the caption is US ex rel. Jones v. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, et al., 2012 WL 1571232 (2nd. Cir. May 7, 2012)….
Abbot Laboratories Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Civil and Criminal Claims in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia
Yesterday Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli announced a whopping $1.7 billion settlement in what he called “the largest Medicaid fraud case investigated by a state Medicaid Fraud Control Unit ever.” My regular readers know that the Virginia Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (which is shortened to MFCU in the parlance of the false claims act and pronounced as…
The Question the American Legislative Exchange Counsel Cannot Answer: Why Do All of the Business-Friendly States Have State False Claims Acts?
The Question the American Legislative Exchange Counsel Cannot Answer: Why Do All of the Business-Friendly States Have State False Claims Acts?As my regular readers know, this blog is about qui tam litigation under the federal False Claims Act as well as under the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act and other state false claims acts. …