Host Jonathan Porter is joined by Husch Blackwell partners Jody Rudman and Lorinda Holloway to discuss the implications of a September 2024 federal court decision from the Middle District of Florida that strikes down the...more
A federal judge in Florida issued a ruling this week holding that the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act (FCA) are unconstitutional. In the lawsuit, a relator named Clarissa Zafirov accused the defendants of violating...more
10/8/2024
/ Article II ,
En Banc Review ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Florida ,
Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Medicare ,
Qui Tam ,
Relators ,
Take Care Clause ,
Unconstitutional Condition ,
United States ex rel Polansky v Executive Health Resources Inc
The Supreme Court issued a number of headline-grabbing decisions this term on topics like religious accommodation, LGBTQ protections, and consideration of race in college admissions. These decisions are wide-reaching and...more
7/7/2023
/ Anti-Kickback Statute ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Hospitals ,
Materiality ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Physicians ,
Protected Activity ,
Public Disclosure ,
Reasonable Interpretations ,
Relators ,
Retaliation ,
SCOTUS ,
Subjective Standard ,
United States ex rel Polansky v Executive Health Resources Inc ,
Universal Health Services Inc v United States ex rel Escobar ,
US ex rel Thomas Proctor v Safeway Inc ,
US ex rel Tracy Schutte et al v SuperValu Inc et al