The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chooses criminal, civil or administrative enforcement based on its assessment of the severity of violations. A significant development in EPA’s enforcement strategy has been the...more
A medical device manufacturer learned what might seem an obvious lesson when it paid $18 million to settle a False Claims Act lawsuit brought by its former Compliance Officer: don’t ignore your compliance officer. The federal...more
10/19/2020
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